工具理性至上:近代工程师传统的工程思想

Instrumental Rationality Supremacy: The Traditional Engineering Thoughts of Engineers in Modern Times

近代以来科学进步及工业革命的巨大成就,把人类社会带入了一个黄金时代,同时也使工具理性急剧膨胀并与价值理性分裂开来。人们认为在工程实践中人只是工具强力意志的践履者,这为工程的全面进步提供了的合理性,同时也形成了以工具理性为指归的工程师传统的工程思想。工具理性单向度的扩张进一步使近代工程的工具旨趣增强,工程的形态展现为推动社会进步的强大工具。工程作为力量的象征向社会各个角落渗透和延伸,这反过来又强化了工具理性的传统,同时也为工程哲学发展开辟了道路,这些哲学思想在本体论及认识论向度上都带有明显的工具主义特征。

The great achievements of scientific progress and industrial revolution since modern times have brought human society into a golden age, it has also made instrumental rationality expand sharply and split with value rationality. It is believed that in engineering practice, human beings are only the practitioners of the strong will of tools, which provides rationality for the overall progress of engineering, and at the same time forms the traditional engineering thought of engineers aiming at the rationality of tools. The unidirectional expansion of instrumental rationality further strengthens the instrumental interest of modern engineering, and the form of engineering is a powerful tool to promote social progress. Engineering, as a symbol of power, permeates and extends into every corner of society, which in turn strengthens the tradition of instrumental rationality, and opens up a way for the development of engineering philosophy. These philosophical thoughts have obvious instrumentalism characteristics in ontology and epistemology.