The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology
that traces its origins to Marxist thought. The Frankfurt School's ideas are also known
as critical theory.
The major tenet of this school is that
knowledge about what is best for society comes not from experience but from reason or
logic. Because all people have the capacity to reason, all should be able to
participate in creating society and the rules that govern it. Starting from this idea,
scholars of this school of thought can analyze and critique socieites. Their basis for
critique is that all societies should allow all groups to participate fully in political
and economic life. Any society that does not allow this or which deprives some groups
of power is not a good and rational society.
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