The foundations of Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethics

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 255-268

  Niemi, Jari Ilmari ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 45949084695     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-008-9119-7     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. See William Rehg, Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997),
2. and Seyla Benhabib, Fred Dallmayer eds., The Communicative Ethics Controversy (New York: MIT Press, 1991).
3. See Jürgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, vol. I., trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984), p. 297.
4. See Jürgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Communication, ed. Maeve Cooke (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 232-233.
5. Ibid., p. 225.
6. Joseph Heath, Communicative Action and Rational Choice (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003), p. 29.
7. Jürgen Habermas, "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification" in Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), p. 82.
8. Ibid., p. 87.
9. Robert Alexy, "A Theory of Practical Discourse," in Benhabib and Dallmayer, op.cit., p. 163.
10. See Robert Alexy, p. 164; see also Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, 3rd ed., trans. James W. Ellington (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993), p. 31.
11. See Jürgen Habermas, "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification," p. 90.
12. Ibid., p. 89.
13. Ibid.
14. See ibid., p. 91.
15. Ibid., p. 65.
16. Ibid., p. 92.
17. See ibid., pp. 92-93.
18. This particular objection is actually leveled against Karl-Otto Apel by Karl-Heinz Ilting, but the objection applies to Habermas as well. See Karl-Heinz Ilting, "The Basis of the Validity of Moral Norms" in The Communicative Ethics Controversy, op. cit., pp. 220-255.
19. Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, vol. I., p. 293.
20. See Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997), p. 25.
21. See Jonathan Culler, "Communicative Competence and Normative Force," New German Critique 35 (1985).
22. See Habermas, "A Reply to my Critics" in Habermas: Critical Debates John B. Thompson and David Held, eds. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1982), p. 239f.
23. Cooke, op. cit., p. 25.
24. See ibid., p. 25.
25. See Maeve Cooke, op. cit., p. 26.
26. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, p. 100.
27. Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy (New York, 1967), p. 22
28. and quoted in Jürgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 118.
29. See Russell Hardin, Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
30. and Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974).
31. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, p. 102.
32. Ibid.
33. Habermas, "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification," op. cit., p. 89.
34. I would like to thank an anonymous referee and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their comments and help.