The Radical Choice and Moral Theory: Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

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Springer Science & Business Media, 31 Οκτ 1994 - 189 σελίδες
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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The Issue and the Background 1308
3
2 The Continental Tradition
10
TABLE OF CONTENTS
14
3 Communicative Rationality and My Aim in this Program
18
2 Communicative vs Cognitive Rationality
26
4 Human Reason as the Only Justificatory Power of Values
41
5 Normative Validity Claims and Cultural Relativism
47
The Necessity of Radical Choice
57
Meaning Ideality and Subjectivity
91
3 The Thesis of Subjectivity
99
5 Subjectivity and the Lifeworld Experience
110
6 The Transcendence of Subjectivity
118
Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First Ought
135
2 Radical Choice fulfilled and the Normative Redeemed
150
5 Value Disvalue and NonValue
165
Index
183

3 The Question of Death
68
5 The Rationality of Radical Choice
80

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