Instrumental reason, science and mastery

Abstract

Through the concept of «instrumental reason» developed by Horkheimer, we present a relationship between science, instrumentalization of reason and domination. If domination started with a «mastery of nature», in time it has envolved mankind. Domination is introduced, in the social dynamics, through work, but the main problem occurs when it spreads through the entire social sphere as consumption and way of living. The desire for a scientific way of thinking, that has value only in scientific terms, will fall in a invalidity of thinking itself.