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| Reason: Reason in philosophy is the ability to think clearly and logically about the world around us. It is the capacity to draw inferences from evidence, to identify and solve problems, and to make informed decisions. Reason is often contrasted with emotion, intuition, and faith. In Hegel there is a distinction between Verstand (that recognizes the differences) and Vernunft (that reassembles them). See also Hegel, Idealism, Thinking, Mind._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Max Horkheimer on Reason - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 462 Reason/Horkheimer/Habermas: Horkheimer introduces instrumental reason as 'subjective reason' and contrasts it with 'objective reason'. >Objectivity, >Subjectivity, cf. >Intersubjectivity. Habermas III 463 Objective Reason/Horkheimer: stands for the ontological thinking that advanced the rationalization of the world views that had understood the human world as part of a cosmological order. (1) The background for the modern history of consciousness are those metaphysical-religious worldviews from which Max Weber first read the process of disenchantment. >Worldviews, >Disenchantment. Like Weber, Horkheimer sees the result of this development in world views in the fact that cultural value spheres are formed that obey specific laws of their own: Horkheimer: "this division of cultural spheres results from the fact that the general objective truth is replaced by formalized, innermost relativistic reason." (2) >Relativism. Horkheimer/Habermas: the subjectivization of reason corresponds to the irrationalization of morality and art. >Morals, >Art. De Sade/Moral/Enlightenment/Adorno/Horkheimer: thesis in Horkheimer/Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: even in the paradigmatic century of Enlightenment, the dissociation of reason and morality came to consciousness right up to the last consequences: one "did not pretend that formalistic reason was more closely related to morality than to immorality. (3) >Enlightenment, >de Sade. Art/Horkheimer/Habermas: Horkheimer asserts the same of modern art development: The dissociation of art Habermas III 464 from reason makes works of art into cultural goods and their consumption into a series of random feelings that are separate from our real intentions and aspirations. (4) >Artworks. 1. M. Horkheimer, Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft, Frankfurt 1967, p.22. 2. Ibid. p 28. 3. M. Horkheimer, Th. W. Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung, Amsterdam 1947, p. 141. 4. Horkheimer (1967) p. 47._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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