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On Frankfurt School's Criticism Of Technological Ration

Posted on:2008-02-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360212494937Subject:Philosophy of Science and Technology
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Technological Ration makes human strength become stronger and also cause an unprecedented and profound change of human being' thought and its life style. It is an important factor of progress modern civilization, at the same time, the human history had emerged the survival difficult position. Cultural faith of technical ration meets crisis and thus people has launched critique to the technical rationThe Frankfurt School has made the profound analysis on alienation of science and technology and ration from the perspective on criticized ration. On one hand, the Frankfurt School saw the advance in technology bring the significant influence for person's rational idea ,way of thinking and values ,which has inherited and developed Hegel and the Marxism' diagnostic method in the certain degree and promoted the rational revolutionary critique spirit. Meanwhile, the Frankfurt School has the one-sided emphasis on the negative effect science and technology impact of ration, regarded science and technology as basis of tool ration, the root of one-sided, eliminating the critical negative spirit, put negative root of science and technology attribute more to itself. According to the Frankfurt school of thinking continues, it eventually will lead to abandon technological ration. There is no doubt that the problems Western countries are facing will be avoided by developing countries in the future. It is not feasible to abandon or neglect negative effect of technical ration.It needs to understand technological ration as entity of the tool and the value, see the duality of technical practice and reasonably construct the idea of technological ration in interaction of between technology and humanities certainly, it is a long-term complex process for resolving the difficult position of human survival. A feasible way going out of the difficult position is to adhere to the people-centered, take the road of sustainable development and realize harmonious development of human beings, nature as well as society, enable mankind to achieve a harmonious state of survival.
Keywords/Search Tags:Technological Ration, The Frankfurt School, alienation of science and technology, alienation of ration
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