关于技术理性的几点思考

技术理性是人类理性的特殊的、综合的和典型的形式,是人类多种理性的某种合取,是一种追求合理性、规范性、有效性、功能性、理想性和条件性的人类智慧和能力,是一种扎根于人类物质需求及人对自然界永恒依赖的实践理性和技术精神.其基本特点是科学合理性,社会合意性,技术原理的可行性、可操作性和技术规范的有效性,物质需求功能化,效用最大化,设计的理想性、创造性、妥协性,制造和生产的条件性、强制性.技术理性批判是对技术理性片面发展的批判.

On Technological Reason

Technological reason is a special, synthetical and typical reason of mankind that is a certain combination of others, and that pursues rationality, criterion, validity, functionality, ideality, and condition. It is a practical reason and technological spirit which grow up in the human material demands relying on the nature for ever. It has the following characteristics: scientific rationality, social desirability, technological feasibility, maneuverability and validity, functionalization of material demands, maximal validity, ideality, compromise of designs, and conditions and compulsion of making and production. Criticism of technological reason means to criticize unilateral development of it.