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This is the second volume of a two-volume collection of Karl-Otto Apel's selected essays, which gathers his most important work on discourse ethics and the communicative theory of rationality, both of which he has been elaborating since the late 60s with Juergen Habermas, his longtime friend and colleague at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to clarifying the foundations of de-ontological ethics, in the tradition of Kantian universalism and proceduralism, which nevertheless presupposes the "linguistic turn" (Peirce, Wittgenstein, Searle, Austin) of philosophy and the hermeneutical enlightenment tradition (Heidegger, Ricouer, Gadamer), the book also contributes greatly to the understanding of the difference between Apel's and Habermas's versions of discourse ethics. Whereas Habermas has elaborated his version of discourse ethics in terms of a theory of communicative action, individuation through socialization, and the internal reference between solidarity and justice, Apel has developed his discourse theory of ethics in terms of a theory of a typology of rationality. Most importantly, the book illustrates how a theory of rationality presupposes a theory of ethics

Author

and introduced by Eduardo Mendieta

Publisher

New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1994

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780391038691

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities