Do you agree that the 'primacy of instrumental reason' is a big problem in the modern world?

Question

This idea comes from Charles Taylor's 'Malaise of Modernity' but you don't have to have read the book to have an opinion (or do you?).

Answer 1

Perhaps you need to read the book to know what the term "primacy of instrumental reason" means. I have not read the book, but I think I understand the gist of it.

I fear that in many cases the primacy of instrumental reason is a very big problem. For instance, I see that it makes us inclined to seek a technical solution when another type of solution would be better suited. I have seen it in medicine in particular, in reluctance to embrace treating the whole person instead of just a set of symptoms.

The things that previously guided us are not the priority any longer, making means to an end much freer and open to interpretation. We no longer have the structure and guidance of previously held mores. The breakdown of the family, the less enthusiastic adherence to God's laws tend to make us more inclined to find the most efficient way, not the best way.

It results in less individualism and therefore seems a threat to society and makes me less inclined to see the goodness in humanity, it seems to contribute to the devaluation of goodness in people, in favor of expediency.

Or, something like that.♥

Answer 2

i could particularly get it out interior the open and cope with it. My kinfolk has avoidance themes and that i'm the undesirable one for desirous to basically cope with it and get it out of my life. I hate drama.

Answer 3

I'll read the book and let you know. It doesn't mean a lot out of context. (Or, possibly it does and I'm stupid)