The response of discourse ethics : to the moral challenge of the human situation as such and especially today

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The response of discourse ethics : to the moral challenge of the human situation as such and especially today

Karl-Otto Apel

(Morality and the meaning of life, 13)

Peeters, 2001

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Marcier Lectures, Louvain-la-Neuve, March 1999

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The need for a global ethics has its origin in the human situation as such (i.e. in the fact of hominisation that has dismissed us from the natural security of animal instincts and thrown us into the state of freedom) and especially in the present situation of humankind that is characterised by an extreme increase of external challenges to our co-responsability, brought about by the results of natural science, technology, politics and economy, and - as it appears - lacking internal resources of ethical reason. The present book tries to show that the transcentendal-pragmatic approach to discourse ethics can reconstruct the genesis of this situation and provide a rational response to the external challenges to and the internal deficits of global ethics.

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  • NCID
    BA53551017
  • ISBN
    • 9042909781
  • Country Code
    be
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Leuven
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 118 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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