Such a theory draws attention to methods of communicative interaction in order to discover how and why we organize our experiences in a particular way. It goes beyond hermeneutics in expressing an interest in emancipation. First, it tries to make language as transparent and as clear as possible, so that it can be understandable. Second, it works to undermine the legitimacy Of those social institutions that help to organize the means of exploitation or injustice Though we can never understand physical reality directly, we can, potentially, understand language completely, for the structure of language is wholly produced by us and by our modes of interaction. What creates artificial barriers among humans and what works to sustain the legitimacy of relations of authority that are intrinsically unjust from this perspective is not the Inevitability of class, caste, or racial distinctions, but the opaqueness of language itself.
Positivism can never be the sole mode of knowing for human beings.
Critical theory attempts to give us knowledge not about means to fixed ends as positivism does, but about the ends of actions themselves. It other words, it tries to answer the question of how we should live. Such a theory competes not so much with science but with the dead Weight of tradition. Critical theory is always a critique of authority. Positivism is morally indifferent.