In his "Critique of Pure Reason," Immanual Kant attempts to explain how rationality can reason absolutes truths of knowledge, particularly concepts of intellectual representation such as space and time, without having to rely on the senses, which would be more in line to what Hegel and the empiricism school of thought. ... After reading the teachings of Kant, it is believed that a single person acts on a system of twelve universally understood principles of reason that's binding to all rational beings, and anything else experienced is merely passive senses copying how we observe. One of ...

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According to Marcuse (cited in Ritzer, 2011:285) "technology, no matter how pure,' sustains and streamlines the continuum of domination". ... Another weakness of critical theory stated by Rasmussen is that it "it takes over the program of 'critique of ideology,' which falsely presumes that it can 'enthrone its own norms and ideals as self-evident and absolute'" (2012:293). ... From this weakness noted in critical theory, it seen to be relatively unhelpful as they have critiqued other social theory as not being able to bring about a social revoluti...

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