Discourse and the moral point of view: Deriving a dialogical principle of universalization

Inquiry (United Kingdom)

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 27-48

  Rehg, William ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84928837522     PISSN: 0020174X     EISSN: 15023923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00201749108602241     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans. Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen, with an Introduction by Thomas McCarthy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990); also by Habermas, ‘Justice and Solidarity: On the Discussion Concerning Stage 6’, in Thomas E. Wren (ed.), The Moral Domain: Essays in the Ongoing Discussion between Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 224-51 (trans. S. W. Nicholsen); the latter translation also appeared in the special issue of The Philosophical Forum (see note 1 above).
2. For overviews of this debate see Amy Gutman, ‘Communitarian Critics of Liberalism’, Philosophy & Public Affairs 14 (1985), pp. 316-21
3. Kenneth Baynes, ‘The Liberal/ Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics’, Philosophy & Social Criticism 14 (1988), pp. 293-313.
4. In Moral Consciousness, pp. 43-115 (hereafter cited as DE).
5. See, e.g., Albrecht Wellmer, Ethik und Dialog (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986), English translation forthcoming; Seyla Benhabib, ‘In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel: Communicative Ethics and Current Controversies in Practical Philosophy’, Philosophical Forum 21 (Fall/Winter 1989-90), pp. 4-13
6. Seyla Benhabib, Critique, Norm and Utopia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 303-9
7. Anton Leist, ‘Diesseits der “Trans-zendentalpragmatik”: Gibt es sprachpragmatische Argumente fur Moral?’ Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 43 (1989), pp. 301-17
8. Agnes Heller, Beyond Justice (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), pp. 234-44.
9. See Thomas McCarthy, The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 326-27
10. Jurgen Habermas, ‘A Postscript to Knowledge and Human Interests’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 3 (1973), p. 177; LC, p. 108.
11. See Herbert Scheit, Wahrheit, Diskurs, Demokratie: Studien zür ‘Konsensustheorie der Wahrheit’ (Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber, 1987), pp. 33-37; in Habermas, see ‘Wahrheits-theorien’, in J. Habermas, Vorstudien und Erganzungen zur Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, 2nd ed. (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986), p. 173.
12. Klaus Gunther, Der Sinn für Angemessenheit: Anwendungsdiskurse in Moral und Recht (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1988), p. 48; for the connection with Mead see Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, 2 vols., trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon, 1984, 1987), vol. 2, pp. 92-111 (hereafter cited as TCA II; vol. 1 as TCA I).
13. This article first appeared in H. Fahrenbach (ed.), Wirklichkeit und Reflexion (Pfullingen: Neske, 1973), pp. 211-66;
14. Stephen E. Toulmin, The Uses of Argument (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), esp. pp. 94-145
15. Stephen E. Toulmin, An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970; 1st ed., 1950), pp. 135, 136
16. R. M. Hare, Reason and Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1963), esp. pp. 7-49, 88-94.
17. See Habermas, H. ‘Intention’, pp. 320-28; esp. p. 326: need-interpretations presuppose a language community sharing evaluative expressions and a tradition of cultural values; also TCA I, pp. 15-17, 88-90, 92.
18. Jurgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon, 1979), pp. 103-6, 178-88
19. Susan Moller Okin, ‘Reason and Feeling in Thinking about Justice’, Ethics 99 (1989), pp. 229-49, makes this point quite convincingly for Rawls’s original position.