The Efficiency of System Rationality in the Face of Corona Crisis
Subject Areas : Philosophy
Keywords: crisis, Coronavirus disease, scientific rationality, technological rationality, hegemonic rationality, system rationality,
Abstract :
Reason is reliable tool for solving and controlling the crisis at any level. Some thinkers have accepted only scientific rationality or its superiority and others expanded the scope of rationality, thus it includes human’s operations in the area of daily life and moral evaluation. There is no hegemonic and dominate rationality in the systems rationality and cannot be said that a special rationality forms the life of human. In this form of social rationality, every social subsystem based on its degree sensitivity, which is called resonance, will respond to changes and environmental disorder, just like human’s feeling of empathy. This reaction is necessary for the health and survival of subsystem and society (environment). In the face of the crisis due to Coronavirus disease, subsystems are moving from the own their path in the direction of general purpose. The rationality of subsystem cannot overcome the consequence of crisis alone. The problematic impact of some societies with this disease and its crisis despite they have strong economic rationality and active and advanced scientific rationality, probably it is due to over reliance on scientific and economic rationality. To illustrate the weakness of scientific rationality in in two cases, one of the limitation of human rationality and the other encouraging people to change in lifestyle, first by examining the data collected through the study of library and web search, we deal with the expression of influence scope of human’ rationality and the critic of scientific and technological rationality and then we explain systemic rationality.
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