Moral consciousness and communicative action

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Moral consciousness and communicative action

Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen ; introduction by Thomas McCarthy

Polity, c1990

  • : pbk

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Moralbewusstein und kommunikatives Handeln

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Translation of: Moralbewusstein und kommunikatives Handeln

Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, c1983

"First published in paperback 1992."--t.p. verso

Includes index

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ISBN 9780745603407

Description

In this book, Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates "discourse ethics", seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. He 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 Conciousness and Communicative Action" confronts a variety of difficult and controversial problems which are at the centre of current debates in philosophy and social and political theory.

Table of Contents

  • Philosophy as stand-in and interpreter
  • reconstruction and interpretation in the social sciences
  • discourse ethics - notes on a programme of philosophical justification
  • moral consciousness and communicative action
  • morality and ethical life - does Hegel's critique of kant apply to discourse ethics?
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780745611044

Description

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.

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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