The Radical Choice and Moral Theory: Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the ‘is—ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of ‘radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the ‘arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all norma...