Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Jurgen Habermas

ISBN 10: 026208192X / ISBN 13: 9780262081924

Edité par MIT Press, 1991

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 026208192X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262081924
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

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. Jurgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.