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The Liberating Force Of Technology The Instrumentalization Of Things Turns Into ... The Instrumentalization Of Man.

Institutionalized Desublimation Thus Appears To Be An Aspect Of The "conquest Of Transcendence" Achieved By The One-dimensional Society. Just As This Society Tends To Reduce, And Even Absorb Opposition (the Qualitative Difference!) In The Realm Of Politics And Higher Culture, So It Does In The Instinctual Sphere. The Result Is The Atrophy Of The Mental Organs For Grasping The Contradictions And The Alternatives And, In The One Remaining Dimension Of Technological Rationality, The Happy Consciousness Comes To Prevail.

One Can Delineate The Domain Of Philosophy However One Likes, But In Its Search For Truth, Philosophy Is Always Concerned With Human Existence. Authentic Philosophizing Refuses To Remain At The Stage Of Knowledge […]. Care For Human Existence And Its Truth Makes Philosophy A 'practical Science' In The Deepest Sense, And It Also Leads Philosophy—and This Is The Crucial Point—into The Concrete Distress Of Human Existence.

The Capabilities (intellectual And Material) Of Contemporary Society Are Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before - Which Means That The Scope Of Society's Domination Over The Individual Is Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before. Our Society Distinguishes Itself By Conquering The Centrifugal Social Forces With Technology Rather Than Terror, On The Dual Basis Of An Overwhelming Efficiency And An Increasing Standard Of Living.

Thought And Speech Are Of A Thinking And Speaking Subject, And If The Life Of The Latter Depends On The Performance Of A Superimposed Function, It Depends On Fulfilling The Requirements Of This Function Thus It Depends On Those Who Control These Requirements.