Aristotle and Nietzsche mark the shift from moral to instrumental knowledge

Evidence

For Horkheimer, this was the concrete significance of the formula recollecting nature within humanity': an alliance between contemplation and instinct. At the last moment, thought felt its way back along the path through which objective reason had been overcome by subjective reasonback along the path of subjectivization, formalization, instrumentalization, desubstantiation of natureand asserted itself, as an organ of nature, against the instruments of the self-glorifying intellect. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1465</cite> (#complicates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nietzsche prefigured Adorno’s diagnosis of the dialectic of enlightenment. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 912; Kant located moral worth in reason’s autonomy from habit and inclination; Kantian ethics made morality rational and shorn of embodied form, displacing Aristotelian ethics — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 191 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Thought must recover its origin as an organ of nature against instrumentalization #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1465