The Radical Choice and Moral Theory : Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

Zhenming Zhai

ISBN 10: 0792328914 / ISBN 13: 9780792328919

Edité par Springer, Springer, 1994

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts. With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.

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• Titre: The Radical Choice and Moral Theory : Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity
• Éditeur: Springer, Springer
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0792328914
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780792328919
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 489 grammes

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In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts.
With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology.
A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.