On Technological Rationality

Professor Chen Changshu, the famous technological philosopher has put forward the problems more than once in his Philosophy of Technology Corpus of Chen Changshu as follows: Whether technology possess rationality? What rationality is the technology? Whether technology is the apotheosis of rationality? Professor Chen points that the most important assignment in our philosophy of technology field is to illustrate the degree of technological rationality correctly, explain the twoness of technology, analyse Martin Heidegger', evaluation to technology; to demonstrate the relationship of technological reason, implemental reason, humanistic reason and value reason; to probe into the principle and the method of value evaluation, the mechanism and the means of social control of technology, and how to hold the public attitude to technology. The above-mentioned view points out the direction of investigating philosophy of technology.The theory of rationality is the central theory in 20 centuries, especially in nearly decate. The scholars of various field probe into the theory of rationality from the different angles, and regard the rationality as the foundation to illuminate other theories. But the theory of technological rationality is seldom discussed in philosophy of technology field. What is technological rationality? How is the problem of rationality and technological rationality put forward? What is the meaning of technological rationality? What are the essential and the connotation of technological rationality? This thesis is a theoretical attempt to the goal that Professor Chen Changshu pointed, and try hard to establish the theoretical system of technological rationality that include the conception and the standard of technological rationality, the principle and the approach of rationalization of technological practice.The thesis consists of five sections: On the first section, the author discussed the practical background and the theoretical reason, The rationality is revealed by the representation of the twoness of technology in practice, and the theory of technological tationality is formed by the criticism to technological reason. On the second section, the...