the mit press justification and application remarks on discourse ethics jun 1993

[...]... reason 2 Similarities and differences between the mode of validity of truth claims and that of norms 3 Some interrelations between rationality and morality 4 The relation between the justification and the application of norms 5 The relation between the validity of norms, sanctions, and selfrespect 6 The discourse- ethical interpretation of the moral point of view 20 Remarks on Discourse Ethics 21 Remarks. .. situation, and the 38 39 Remarks on Discourse Ethics Remarks on Discourse Ethics situation is described in turn in the light of the conditions specified in the norm Here I do not need to go into the principle of appropriateness and the logic of discourses of application, since these matters have been investigated in detail by Giinther 26 The problem to which both respond becomes apparent in the case of conflict... How one understands oneself depends not only on how one describes oneself but also on the ideals toward which one strives One's identity is determined simultaneously by how one sees oneself and how one would like to see oneself, by what one finds oneself to be and the ideals with reference to which one fashions oneself and one's life This existential self-understanding is evaluative in its core and, ... the treatment of moral-practical questions, on the one hand, and of empirical-theoretical questions, on the other In justifying factual claims, we find no analogue of the peculiar division of the impartial judgment of moral conflicts of action into the steps of justification and application Although the discursive redemption of assertoric validity claims is subject to the fallibilistic qualification... reality of the alien will belongs to the primary conditions of collective will formation The fact of the plurality of agents and the twofold contingency under which the reality of one will confronts that of another generate the additional problem of the communal pursuit of collective goals, and the problem of the regulation of communal existence under the pressure of social complexity also takes on a new... satisfied do they express what all could will Only then are moral commands in the common interest and- precisely because they are equally good for all do not impose supererogatory demands To this extent rational morality puts its seal on the abolition of the victim At the same time, someone who obeys the Christian 35 Remarks on Discourse Ethics commandment to love one's neighbor, for example, and makes... circumscribed conception of morality that focuses on questions of justice But it neither has to neglect the calculation of the consequences of actions rightly emphasized by utilitarianism nor exclude from the sphere of discursive problematization the questions of the good life accorded prominence by classical ethics, abandoning them to irrational emotional dispositions or decisions The term discourse ethics may... like all evaluations, is Janus faced Two components are interwoven in it: the descriptive component of the ontogenesis of the ego and the normative component of the ego-ideal Hence, the clarification of one's self-understanding or the clinical reassurance of one's identity calls for an appropriative form of understandingthe appropriation of one's own life history and the traditions and circumstances... questions of the good life A decision based on illusions-attaching oneself to the wrong partner or choosing the wrong career.- . .! Justification and Application Remarks on Discourse Ethics J iirgen Habermas translated by Ciaran Cronin The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England .! Justification and Application Remarks on Discourse. classical ethics, abandoning them to irra- tional emotional dispositions or decisions. The term discourse ethics may have occasioned a misunderstanding in this connection. The theory of discourse relates. achieved in argumentation that sufficiently approximates to the conditions of the ideal speech situation can legitimately claim to be based on rational considerations, and hence to be valid. Thus the discourse theory of ethics demands that we go beyond theoretical