1/ Over the past century, an arrogant, technocratic positivism sought to elevate empirical science as the only valid form of knowledge. With a kind of totalitarian impulse, this negated entirely other domains of inquiry: ethics and metaphysics were declared nonsensical.
2/ Certain questions simply could not be raised. The point was not to understand the world but to transform it. Within this impoverished philosophy, which knows only impersonal forces, a critique of violence becomes impossible.
3/ As the useful replaces the good and efficiency becomes the highest value, not only is knowledge instrumentalized but human beings are also instrumentalized.
4/ In his genealogy of modernity, Augusto Del Noce warns, “We are approaching a time when it will be normal to think that man is entitled to exist inasmuch as he is socially useful, i.e., inasmuch as others judge him to be so.”
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