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自文艺复兴末期以降的400年间,进步的观念开始深入人心。这期间,技术以一种器物的形式把进步的观念演绎为一种实实在在的力量的提高与改善,从而迅速获得社会的认同。在此背景下,启蒙运动的理念还未来得及完整展开,价值理性与工具理性的并行局面快速退化为一种单纯的工具理性,这种思潮造就了十九世纪末的虚无主义与当下的犬儒主义的流行。启蒙在技术进步的掩映下,日益沦落为一种社会认知中的幻象。剖析技术进步的本质,恰是克服犬儒主义与恢复启蒙理念的唯一合适的切入点。
In the 400 years since the end of the Renaissance, the concept of progress began to penetrate the hearts of the people. During this period, technology has evolved the concept of progress in the form of an artifact into a real improvement and improvement of its power, thereby rapidly gaining social acceptance. Against this background, the concept of the Enlightenment has not yet been fully developed. The parallel deconstruction of the value rationality and the instrumental rationality has rapidly deteriorated into a purely instrumental rationality that created the nihilism of the late nineteenth century and the current cynicism popular. Under the influence of technological progress, Enlightenment has been gradually reduced to a kind of illusion in social cognition. Analyzing the essence of technological progress is precisely the only appropriate starting point for overcoming cynicism and restoring the concept of enlightenment.