The Radical Choice and Moral Theory

Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

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Paperback, 194 blz. | Engels
Springer Netherlands | 1994e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9789401042239
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Springer Netherlands 1994e druk, 2012 9789401042239
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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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ISBN13:9789401042239
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:194
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:1994

Inhoudsopgave

1. Introduction: the Issue and the Background. 2. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims. 3. The Necessity of Radical Choice. 4. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity. 5. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First `Ought'. Bibliography. Index.

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