现代性与理性的嬗变

理性有着十分丰富的人性内涵和文化内涵。由于人与社会现实之间建构方式的不同，它也在不同的层面上展现出来。这说明，理性是历史的理性，有历史的维度。正因为如此，人类文明和社会发展的历史，也是一部理性嬗变的历史。由于现代性与理性的内在逻辑关联，现代性的状况也不可避免地通过理性的嬗变表征出来。价值理性和工具理性的叛离、工具理性与技术理性的殊途同归是现代性的必然反映。

Modernity and the Evolution of Rationality

Rationality has a very rich cultural connotation of human nature. As there are the different ways of construction in between human and social reality, it also manifests itself on the different levels. This shows that the rationality is the historical rationality and has a historical dimension. Because of this, the history of human civilization as well as social development is also a history of rational evolution. Modernity and the rationality because of the inherent logic association of modernity and rationality, the status of modernity inevitably come out through the characteristics of rational evolution. Value rationality and instrumental rationality defection and instrumental rationality and technical rationality having a roads lead to Rome, are bound to reflect the modernity.