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Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality
For Max Weber, the process of modernization is the process of rationalization in which it includes every realm in our modern life, such as the economy, science, organization, education, and law. However, this kind of rationalization has created coercive and inhumane conditions because rationalizatio...
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| author | Hassan, Momen Abdelbari |
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| description | For Max Weber, the process of modernization is the process of rationalization in which it includes every realm in our modern life, such as the economy, science, organization, education, and law. However, this kind of rationalization has created coercive and inhumane conditions because rationalization has converted to being instrumental (value-free) without regard to any transcendental or moral values. The inhumane paradigm has become the only fate of our world. The vision needs rational domination to be achieved through formal rational law. Modern law, along with bureaucratization, has paved the road to rational political domination. This kind of domination captures human minds and makes them small cogs who function and serve this instrumental paradigm. This paper argues that instrumental rationality implicates humans in its bloody crimes. Human beings, both officials and ordinaries, bear guilt because they have become partners in their states’ crimes. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3402 Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality Hassan, Momen Abdelbari For Max Weber, the process of modernization is the process of rationalization in which it includes every realm in our modern life, such as the economy, science, organization, education, and law. However, this kind of rationalization has created coercive and inhumane conditions because rationalization has converted to being instrumental (value-free) without regard to any transcendental or moral values. The inhumane paradigm has become the only fate of our world. The vision needs rational domination to be achieved through formal rational law. Modern law, along with bureaucratization, has paved the road to rational political domination. This kind of domination captures human minds and makes them small cogs who function and serve this instrumental paradigm. This paper argues that instrumental rationality implicates humans in its bloody crimes. Human beings, both officials and ordinaries, bear guilt because they have become partners in their states’ crimes. 2024-08-15T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2360 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3402/viewcontent/Momen_Hassan_Thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Instrumental rationality modernity formal rational law structured domination iron cage killers Jurisprudence Law Law and Philosophy Law and Society |
| spellingShingle | Instrumental rationality modernity formal rational law structured domination iron cage killers Jurisprudence Law Law and Philosophy Law and Society Hassan, Momen Abdelbari Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title | Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title_full | Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title_fullStr | Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title_short | Killers that Once Were Humans: Reading the Role of Modern Law Via Instrumental Rationality |
| title_sort | killers that once were humans reading the role of modern law via instrumental rationality |
| topic | Instrumental rationality modernity formal rational law structured domination iron cage killers Jurisprudence Law Law and Philosophy Law and Society |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2360 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3402/viewcontent/Momen_Hassan_Thesis.pdf |
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