DIALOGUE AND ETHICS: Can the Study of Dialogue Teach Us Something about Ethics?
Habermas and Apel tried to give Ethics a philosophical justification by analyzing the way we realize discourses. A discourse is a special kind of a dialogue or, more generally, communication. Habermas’ and Apel’s contributions profoundly influenced German philosophy and jurisprudence. Yet, Ernst Tug...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2017, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-334 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Discourse B Ethics B Moral Rules B Dialogue B Debate B Human Rights B Apel B Habermas B Co-Operation |
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| Summary: | Habermas and Apel tried to give Ethics a philosophical justification by analyzing the way we realize discourses. A discourse is a special kind of a dialogue or, more generally, communication. Habermas’ and Apel’s contributions profoundly influenced German philosophy and jurisprudence. Yet, Ernst Tugendhat, a friend of Habermas, very soon pronounced the objection, that the procedure of Habermas and Apel was circular: Their definition and description of "discourse" relied implicitly to the main ethical rules, and therefore these rules can easily be recognized by analyzing the settings (or structure) of a discourse. In the following text I’ll try to show that Tugendhat’s objection is valid, but nevertheless Habermas’ and Apel’s discourse philosophies remain inspiring for everyone interested in giving Ethics a solid foundation. I will argue, however, that the central pillar of this foundation is not discourse itself, but a particular kind of co-operation ("qualified cooperation"), of which discourse is an example. The main step in my argumentation consists in showing that different kinds of communication - discourse, negotiation, debate - correspond closely to different kinds of human interaction, of which "qualified co-operation" is the basic one. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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