George Lukacs [0] and Erich Fromm [1] talk about (self-) reification - in a Kantian kind of way - as turning yourself into a means instead of an end. Self-explo

George Lukacs [0] and Erich Fromm [1] talk about (self-) reification - in a Kantian kind of way - as turning yourself into a means instead of an end. Self-exploitation. It's only through that eye you can fall so low as to see yourself as inferior to a machine you built yourself. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lukacs/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lukacs/ [1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/erich-fromm.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/erich-fromm.html