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Habermas' Discourse Ethics

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hayekianxyz Posted: Sun, Jan 25 2009 6:25 PM

Does anybody have any information (e.g. short links or a summary) on the discourse ethics of Habermas? I'm just curious since Professor Hoppe was a student of Habermas and I'd like to see how their approaches differ and what conclusions are reached by Habermas.

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Here's some short summaries I found (not by Habermas himself):

 

http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/Forum/meta/background/HaberIntro.html Introduction to Habermas's Discourse Ethics: Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon and Charles Ess, Drury College

 

http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/Forum/meta/background/agimmler.html The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas Dr. Antje Gimmler

http://www.royby.com/philosophy/pages/habermas.html A discussion in relation to the ‘Discourse Ethics' of Jurgen Habermas. Roy Hornsby

 

For your purposes, I recommend the first two over the third. Or at least readership of the first two before the third.

Sorry for the citations not being in MLA, not enough time.

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That's wonderful, thank you very much.

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GilesStratton:

That's wonderful, thank you very much.

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You might also want to have a look at "Between facts and norms" (available, e.g., on Amazon); his main political theory book, where he attempts to reconcile liberalism and republicanism, sadly selling the former for the benefit of the latter...

He differs from Hoppe on many issues; most notably, after the deliberative stage of the process, he allows majoritarian decision making, not too compatible with anarcho-capitalism. Hmm, and not forget: he is a (not very) reformed Marxist.

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garegin replied on Mon, Feb 2 2009 7:35 PM

frankfurt school, represent Cool. thats him on the far right.

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