Stay tuned...more on rationalism, capitalism, and domination.
Here's a quote from an article by Jurgen Habermas that resonates with some of the ideas I raised in my post a few days ago regarding the irrationality of capitalism.
"What is singular about the 'rationality' of science and technology is that it characterizes the growing potential of self-surpassing productive forces which continually threaten the institutional framework and at the same time, set the standard of legitimation for the production relations that restrict this potential" (Habermas, "Technology and Science as 'Ideology'" p.89).
Also from Martin Heidegger: ***just substitute "humanity" for "man" while reading the passage.
"Thus when man, investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his own conceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness of standing-reserve.
Modern technology as an ordering revealing is, then, no merely human doing. Therefore we must take that challenging that sets upon man to order the real as standing-reserve in accordance with the way in which it shows itself" (The Question Concerning Technology, p.19).
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