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Means rather than Ends

Gadamer “find[s] it ominous that modern science should revolve only around itself, that it is concerned only with those methods and possibilities which are necessary for the scientific control of things.” What this does is “make superfluous the scrutiny of ends by successfully providing and ‘controlling’ the means at one and the same time” (Gadamer, 1965/1992, p. 169).