The Response of Discourse Ethics to the Moral Challenge of the Human Situation As Such and Especially Today: Mercier Lectures, Louvain-la-neuve, March 1999 - Couverture souple

Apel, K.-O.

 
9789042909786: The Response of Discourse Ethics to the Moral Challenge of the Human Situation As Such and Especially Today: Mercier Lectures, Louvain-la-neuve, March 1999
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9042909781 ISBN 13 : 9789042909786
Editeur : Peeters Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
Peeters Publishers
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042909781
ISBN 13 
9789042909786
Reliure
Poche
Nombre de pages
118
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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