Rationalization and self-sabotage

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D'Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Rationality

Abstract In making the case that “rationalization is rational,” Cushman downplays its signature liability: Rationalization exposes a person to the hazard of delusion and self-sabotage. In paradigm cases, rationalization undermines instrumental rationality by introducing inaccuracies into the representational map required for planning and effective agency.

The Instrumental Rationality of Extermination

Peace Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Frances B. McCrea ◽  
Gerald E. Markle
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Rationality

On the Conversation Between Theologians and Economists: A Contribution to Public Theology

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Jan Peil ◽  
Aloys Wijngaards ◽  
Toine van den Hoogen
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Value Rationality

AbstractThis article seeks to contribute to the development of a conversation between public theology and economics. A major problem for this conversation is the dichotomy between normative and positive judgements about our social reality. This translates into the use of distinctive concepts of value rationality and instrumental rationality. This article proposes an alternative conception of rationality that offers a way out of the positive‐normative dichotomy and embeds our approach in the framework of public theology.

scholarly journals Study on the “high-quality development” economics

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Jin Bei
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Perfect Match ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Real Nature ◽  
Dual Character

Purpose As China embarks upon a new era of high-quality development, it is increasingly important and imperative for China’s economic development to live up to its real nature, which is to satisfy people’s growing needs for a better life. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper attempts to discuss the implication of HQD and its related theoretical issues from the basic theory of economics, and literature review. It is necessary to return to Marx’s “dual character of commodity” to check the theoretical foundation of this issue, based on the duality methodology, namely, the duality of the value of use and the value of exchange. Findings Moving from HSG phase to HQD phase constitutes a major challenge and an arduous task that is extremely difficult both theoretically and practically. A series of new problems crop out as to the theoretical understanding and practical resolution. Fundamentally speaking, this new dynamic mechanism intrinsically requires a perfect integration of the instrumental rationality of market economy and the value-based rationality of economic development. Originality/value This new momentum requires a perfect match between the instrumental rationality of market economy and the value-based rationality of economic development.

scholarly journals Instrumental Rationality: A Reprise

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Raz
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Rationality

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scholarly journals VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN Y LA RACIONALIDAD INSTRUMENTAL = VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN AND THE INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Ana Pinel Benayas
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

<p>En este artículo se pretende hacer una relectura de <em>Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo</em> (1818) desde la tesis planteada en la <em>Dialéctica de la Ilustración</em> (1944) de los filósofos Adorno y Horkheimer, intentando mostrar que Victor Frankenstein es un esclavo de la racionalidad instrumental.  </p><p>This article is intended to make a rereading of Frankenstein; o, The Modern Prometheus (1818) from the thesis presented in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) and Eclipse of Reason (1947) of the philosophers Adorno and Horkheimer, trying to prove that Victor Frankenstein is an instrumental´s rationality slave.</p>

scholarly journals Understanding the School Curriculum: Theory, Politics and Principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-136
Author(s):  
Daeyoung Goh
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practice ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Theory ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Creative Becoming ◽  
Changing World

Alex Moore’s (2015) Understanding the School Curriculum: Theory, Politics and Principles explores how the school curriculum works through its becoming as it navigates reproductive paranoia and (r)evolutionary schizophrenia. Moore suggests that the school curriculum inevitably intersects with political and socio-economic interests as well as the globalization movement. In this light, the book stimulates the reader to ponder questions such as, “Who decides what kind of knowledge we should have in this wider, ever-changing world?” and “How have issues around knowledge developed with the school curriculum?” and “What sort of future could educators imagine for alternative knowledge, educational practice and society?” Such questions haunt the book, while promoting the educator and the learner to risk weaving a creative becoming and thereby moving the realm of knowledge from the boundary of instrumental rationality to the horizon of dynamics of humanity.

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