Modern dominant reason reduces to instrumental calculation serving self-preservation

Evidence

Horkheimer described the form of reason dominant in modern society as being simultaneously subjective and instrumental, since it served to find the correct means of achieving goals which were ultimately always concerned with the subject’s self-preservation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 370

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the defining causal logic of subjective-instrumental reason: means-selection in service of self-preservation.