A Critique of the Instrumental Attitude to Modern Technology, Based on Frankfurt's Critical Circle View and Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

This paper first makes explicit the instrumental attitude to modern technology by explaining its epistemological and ultimate principles, and then highlights the effects and requisites of this view about modern technology. After that, it criticizes the instrumental attitude based on Frankfurt’s cultural critical circle approach to science and technology and refers to the effects and requisites of this view on modern technology. At the end, resting on transcendental philosophy and criticizing the epistemological and ultimate principles of the instrumental attitude to modern technology, the author expounds the critical approach of transcendental philosophy to this attitude. According to this point of view, the nature of existence is aware of the actions of modern man and man’s technological achievements and reacts according to divine traditions, and modern man’s adoption of the humanist approach the brings about the wrath of God in the form of serious environmental problems.