Moral Discourse as Reflection: Comments on James Swindal’s Reflection Revisited  

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Rehg, William

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 29 no. 2 (Mar. 2003), page 127–136.
Topik: critical theory ; formal pragmatics ; Habermas ; moral discourse ; reflection ; theory of communicative action
Fulltext: 127PSC292.pdf (60.1KB)

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In his Reflection Revisited, James Swindal interprets Habermas’s formal pragmatics as recasting the traditional philosophy of reflection in intersubjective, augmentation-theoretic terms. In this review essay, I consider some aspects of Swindal’s interpretation for situated moral criticism. I focus in particular on Swindal’s claim that moral discourse must be preceded by meta-discourses in which actors discuss issues related to the initiation of moral discourse. Although I reject Swindal’s arguments for the necessity of such meta-discourses, I provide further arguments for their theoretical possibility and practical desirability for a contextualized critical social theory.

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