Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action by Jurgen Habermas

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action by Jurgen Habermas

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.

Habermas, Jü¾˜¶˜¼rgen: - Jü¾˜¶˜¼ 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.

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ISBN 13	9780262581189
ISBN 10	0262581183
Title	Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
Author	Jurgen Habermas
Series	Studies In Contemporary German Social Thought
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	1992-10-08
Number of pages	244
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