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    The narrow positivistic and instrumentalist model of rationality should be replaced with a more humanistic model of rationality.

    Environmental Ethics
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    • 1.The positivistic model of rationality alienates human beings from nature and from their own inner nature.
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    • 2.A humanistic model of rationality incorporates the values of aesthetic, moral, sensuous, and expressive aspects of human life.
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    • 3.Alienation from nature and from inner human nature is undesirable and should be remedied.
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    • 1.The positivistic model of rationality, as articulated by Carnap and the Vienna Circle, is not inherently instrumentalist but aims at precision and intersubjective verifiability.
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    • 2.Rejecting positivistic rationality risks substituting rigorous epistemic standards with culturally contingent value judgments that cannot be publicly adjudicated.
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    • 3.Environmental policy requires defensible, reproducible empirical claims that a 'humanistic' rationality, lacking formal criteria, cannot reliably generate.
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    • 1.The premise that positivism 'alienates' humans from nature commits the genetic fallacy by conflating a methodology's historical associations with its logical content.
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    • 2.Max Weber's distinction between formal and substantive rationality shows that instrumental reason can be constrained by value-rational frameworks without abandoning its core structure.
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    • 3.Replacing rather than supplementing positivistic rationality risks eliminating the error-correcting mechanisms that protect environmental discourse from romanticism and wishful thinking.
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    The progress in knowledge and material well-being may not be a bad thing in itself, where the consumption and control of nature is a necessary part of human life. However, the critical theorists argue that the positivistic disenchantment of natural things (and, likewise, of human beings—because they too can be studied and manipulated by science) disrupts our relationship with them, encouraging the undesirable attitude that they are nothing more than things to be probed, consumed and dominated. A
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