In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of
moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative
action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse
ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which
normative claims can be impartially judged.
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.
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action confronts
directly a variety of difficult and controversial problems which
are at the centre of current debates in philosophy and social and
political theory.
Autorentext
Jürgen Habermas is the author of numerous books including The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Polity, 1988), The Theory of Communicative Action (Polity, 1988) and Postmetaphysical Thinking (Polity, 1992).
Klappentext
In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range ofmoral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicativeaction, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourseethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from whichnormative claims can be impartially judged. Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of socialaction via an examination of research in the social psychology ofmoral and interpersonal development. He aims to show that our basicmoral intuitions spring from something deeper and more universalthan contingent features of our tradition, namely from normativepresuppositions of social interaction that belong to the repertoireof competent agents in any society. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action confrontsdirectly a variety of difficult and controversial problems whichare at the centre of current debates in philosophy and social andpolitical theory.
Zusammenfassung
In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.
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.
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action confronts directly a variety of difficult and controversial problems which are at the centre of current debates in philosophy and social and political theory.
Inhalt
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.