The Radical Choice and Moral Theory

Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-2891-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 489 g

Reihe: Analecta Husserliana

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts.
With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology.
A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.

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Research

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Issue and the Background.- § 1. The Is-Ought Controversy.- § 2. The Continental Tradition.- § 3. Communicative Rationality and My Aim in this Program.- 2. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims.- § 1. Communicative Rationality: the Counter-Factual.- § 2. Communicative vs. Cognitive Rationality.- § 3. Initial Principles.- § 4. Human Reason as the Only Justificatory Power of Values.- § 5. Normative Validity Claims and Cultural Relativism.- 3. The Necessity of Radical Choice.- § 1. Habermas’ Communicative Ethics.- § 2. Alan Gewirth’s Attempt.- § 3. The Question of Death.- § 4. Good life No More And No Less Than the Life of Humans.- § 5. The Rationality of Radical Choice.- § 6. Humanitude vs. Human Nature.- 4. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity.- § 1. Recapitulation and Strategy 91 § 2. The Naturalistic Notion of “ Subjectivity” and Reason vs. Cause.- § 3. The Thesis of Subjectivity.- § 4. Ideality and Validity Claims.- § 5. Subjectivity and the Lifeworld Experience.- § 6. The Transcendence of Subjectivity.- § 7. Constitutive as Opposed to Conative Subjectivity.- 5. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First “ Ought”.- § 1. Subjectivity and Humanitude.- § 2. Radical Choice fulfilled and the Normative Redeemed.- § 3. Freedom and the Normative.- § 4. “ Ought” and Responsibility.- § 5. ?Value), ?Disvalue? and ?Non-Value?.- § 6. Pre-Moralic and Moralic; ?Moral?, ?Immoral? and ?Amoral?.- § 7. Semi-Final Remarks and Anticipations.