Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action / Edition 1

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0262581183
ISBN-13:
9780262581189
Pub. Date:
10/08/1992
Publisher:
MIT Press
ISBN-10:
0262581183
ISBN-13:
9780262581189
Pub. Date:
10/08/1992
Publisher:
MIT Press
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action / Edition 1

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action / Edition 1

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Overview

This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse. Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of research in the social psychology of moral and interpersonal development. He aims to show that our basic moral intuitions spring from something deeper and more universal than contingent features of our tradition, namely from normative presuppositions of social interaction that belong to the repertoire of competent agents in any society.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262581189
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/08/1992
Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author


Jü rgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy.

Philosophy as Stand-In and Interpreter.

Reconstruction and Interpretation in the Social Sciences.

Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification.

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.

Morality and Ethical Life: Does Hegel's Critique of Kant Apply to Discourse Ethics?.

Index.

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