Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action II
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This document summarizes and critiques Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action. It discusses Habermas' views on understanding, rupture, crisis, translation, and transformation. It also presents alternative perspectives that truth is intersubjective rather than universally understood, and that rupture is an inherent part of life rather than something to be solved through knowledge. The document critiques Habermas' view of crisis as caused by lack of rationality, and presents an alternative view of morality as existential-ontological rather than deontological. It concludes by noting remarks on Hegel and a quote from Marx about force deciding between equal rights.
Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action II
- 1. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action II By Tabea Hirzel
- 3. Understanding Habermas: Universal understanding = truth Understanding always subjective = truth intersubjective phenomenon © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 4. Rupture Habermas: through contextual application, caused by lack of (individual) consciousness and solidarity (recognition of a sameness) Recognition of objective truth is incomplete Rupture is a symptome of the problem Can be solved by progressive higher knowledge of truth Hey! Universal understanding is an illusion. Truth is not understanding. Truth is a phenomenon that is created by pluralistic truth-claims Rupture is the very process of life Is not solved as long live goes on © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 5. Crisis Habermas: Caused by the encounter with new arguments The rupture is due to lack in rationality, knowledge and understanding Caused by nominal individuality The rupture is an opportunity for a learning process + A risk for failure © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 6. Translation Habermas: Where two arguments colide they are translated into a higher abstraction (substant category) which gives insight into a larger field of truth/ deeper understanding Categories are provisional idealizations of substance, phaenomena of the mind’s learning process. Their definition shifts with every new noun in the set. © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 7. Transformation Habermas: Communicative action integrates new particules into a set Is an empancipative action of the individual Communicative action transforms the identity of the set Is an emanzipative action of the indiviual © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 8. Moral theory • Deontological: act right because it is universally good (epistemological) • Cognitive: mental- epistemological • Formalistic • Universalistic (territorial) • realist • Progressive-evolutionary Threefold good: What is good for me What is good for us What is good for them (prescriptive, tribal morality) Ontological impossibility to define the right in universal terms Cognitive: existential-ontological Formalistic Nominalistic Irrealist (Nelson Goodman, Tondino – pluralistic reality) Materialistic Fatalistic-evolutionary © 2010 Tabea Hirzel
- 9. Problems with Consiousness & Identity • Remarks on Hegel • Marx: «Between equal rights force decides» © 2010 Tabea Hirzel