The Formalization of Reason
The formalization of reason leads to a paradoxical cultural situation.
- On the one hand, the destructive antagonism of self and nature, an antagonism epitomizing the history of our civilization, reaches its peak in this era.
- On the other hand, philosophical thinking, whose task it is to essay a reconsiliation, has come to deny or to forget the very existence of the antagonism.
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a philosophical critique of logical positivism, scientific absolutism, and the rapid rise in subjective reason over objective reason.
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