Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: Copernicus and Kepler

3. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-262-58118-9
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

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. Jürgen Habermas is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Jurgen

Habermas, Jürgen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lenhardt, Christian

Nicholsen, Shierry Weber

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholsen, Shierry Weber
Shierry Weber Nicholsen teaches environmental philosophy and psychology in Antioch
University Seattle's M.A. Program on Environment and Community and is a
psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle. She has translated
several works by Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas.

Habermas, Jürgen
Jürgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt
and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the
2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize
is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the
scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at
Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques
of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992).
He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for
the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton.