What is "calculative"

Usage examples of "calculative".

In subsequent volumes, I trace a large part of this dissociation and resultant emphasis on the Big One (of instrumental/objectivistic rationality) to the strong influence of the techno-economic base of industrialization and the machine mentality (which is similar to, but not quite the same as, the more common analysis that traces it to capitalism): the techno-economic base supported instrumental-purposive activities, and in a way all out of proportion to the instrumental-purposive rationality that did in fact build it: a positive feedback loop that sent calculative rationality spinning out of control, precisely in the avowed purpose of gaining control.

Thus, Rothberg points out, "The content of the other two worlds (the intersubjective [we] and subjective [I] worlds) was increasingly organized according to the structures of the empirical sciences and instrumental or calculative rationality.

The radical Enlightenment had offered instrumental or calculative reason as a way to orient the Ego to the great interlocking order.

Schelling's brilliant synthesis and integration of the Ego and the Eco stand in sharp contrast to the plethora of today's approaches to the environment, which still typically pursue either the Egoic-rational calculative adventure ("reform environmentalism"), or fall into various forms of regressive Eco-Romantic "reechantment.

He remained calm, calculative and healthy, and quite freely deliberate, even whilst he felt, with faint, small but final sterile horror, that his mystic reason was breaking, giving way now, at this crisis.

Our children’s children will live forever, and they will wear the crowns of Emperors of Experience: crowns of silicon which will give them the memories they will need, the calculative capacities they will need, and all the ecstasies that they will not be ashamed to demand.