Reason adapts humans to power rather than unifying subject and object
Evidence
In the equation Reason = Truth = Reality, which joins the subjective and objective world into one antagonistic unity, Reason is the subversive power, the “power of the negative” that establishes, as theoretical and practical Reason, the truth for men and things—that is, the conditions in which men and things become what they really are. The attempt to demonstrate that this truth of theory and practice is not a subjective but an objective condition was the original concern of Western thought and the origin of its logic—logic not in the sense of a special discipline of philosophy but as the mode of thought appropriate for comprehending the real as rational. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 487 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate - in short, the emancipation from fear - then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 763 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Emotion fails because it denies the world’s resistance while reason succeeds by acknowledging it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 77; Reason works as conscious projection that holds subject and object apart.; Reason was originally conceived as a subversive power that transforms reality toward truth — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 487 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Subject and object letting-go of fixed positions liberates previously imprisoned philosophical energy
#expands(0.85) - Reason was originally conceived as a subversive power that transforms reality toward truth
#contradicts(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 487 - Reason serves humanity best when it attacks currently accepted notions of reason
#complicates(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 763