Instrumental rationality is a mode of thought and action that identifies problems and works directly towards their solution.
Instrumental rationality is often studied as a social phenomenon by sociology, social philosophy and critical theory. Perhaps its most famous critic is philosopher Martin Heidegger, who argued that the greatest danger facing modern humans was their own instrumental relationship to the world.
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“America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)