Technological rationality is a core concept in the philosophy of technology. Centered on this concept, varied researches conducted by scholars in different fields take on a multi-dimension and multi-level pattern, from employing the view of the Western humanism, technological pessimism or postmodernism, or basing on empirical or epistemological basis perspective, or exploring it by virtue of the Marxist thought on technology. This article divides the development of technological rationality into three stages, i.e. instrumental rationality , operation rationality and value rationality . It discusses the representative viewpoint in technological rationality critique, i.e. technological pessimism and hereby indicates technological rationality should be examined from humanistic perspective, and future technological rationality will be directed at the unity of implement rationality and value rationality .
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