Moral consciousness and communicative action
By: Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen ; introduction by Thomas McCarthy
Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780585359960
Subjects: Ethics; Act (Philosophy); Communication; Philosophy; Moral and ethical aspects; Act [Philosophy]; Morale; Action (Philosophie); Aspect moral; PHILOSOPHY; Social; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Comunicación; Ética; Morele ontwikkeling; Ethische aspecten; Communicatief handelen
Work titles: Moralbewusstein und kommunikatives Handeln
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of: Moralbewusstein und kommunikatives Handeln.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Philosophy As Stand-In And Interpreter; title: Reconstruction And Interpretation In The Social Sciences; title: Discourse Ethics: Notes On A Program Of Philosophical Justification; title: Moral Consciousness And Communicative Action; title: Morality And Ethical Life: Does Hegel's Critique Of Kant Apply To Discourse Ethics?