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马克斯·韦伯(Max Weber)在1917年提出世界已被祛魅时,他的意思是:要理解现代性,最好的途径是理解“通过计算控制一切”的“技术手段”的扩张。~②这些手段的真正力量并不在于技术的方法和体系本身,而在于其使用者的倾向,在于他们对下述判断不可动摇的信心:无法被计算和控制的“神秘而不可计算的力量”原则上“不存在”。这样的技术理性取代了前现代人类用以取悦诸神和灵魂的“巫术手段”。根据韦伯那
When Max Weber proposed in 1917 that the world had been disenchanted, his point was: The best way to understand modernity is to understand the “technical means” of “controlling everything through computing.” expansion. The real power of these means lies not in the technical methods and the system itself but in the tendencies of its users to their unshakeable confidence in the judgment that the “mysterious and uncalculable force that can not be calculated and controlled” “In principle ” does not exist “. Such technical rationality replaced the ”witchcraft" used by pre-modern humans to please the gods and souls. According to Weber