NOVOVJEKOVNA ZNANOST I TEHNIČKA RACIONALNOST KAO INSTRUMENTI GOSPODSTVA NAD PRIRODOM
NEW AGE SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RATIONALITY AS INSTRUMENTS OF DOMINATION OVER NATURE

Summary/Abstract: In creating the predominant social and individual standards, the new age paradigm is based on belief in the scientific method as the only proper approach to knowledge and the influence of unlimited material progress achieved through constant economical growth and the refutal of nature in order to oblige the needs of the technical system. Established by human action based on instrumental rational principles, the technical system is acting by far more autonomously. The constructivist logic implanted in it by humans sometimes seems so impeccable that it tends to become a desirable pattern of human behaviour, activity and continuing construction of the social system. This is due mostly to an efficient application of technical rationality, which in many fields facilitates living, but ultimately sustains irresponsible human economy and the desire to conquer its environment, Le. nature, completely.

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