Zhenming Zhai

The Radical Choice and Moral Theory

Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts.
With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology.
A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Analecta Husserliana .45
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-010-4223-9
• 1994
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9789401042239
• ISBN-10: 9401042233
• Artikelnr.: 37476657

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Issue and the Background.- 1. The Is-Ought Controversy.- 2. The Continental Tradition.- 3. Communicative Rationality and My Aim in this Program.- 2. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims.- 1. Communicative Rationality: the Counter-Factual.- 2. Communicative vs. Cognitive Rationality.- 3. Initial Principles.- 4. Human Reason as the Only Justificatory Power of Values.- 5. Normative Validity Claims and Cultural Relativism.- 3. The Necessity of Radical Choice.- 1. Habermas' Communicative Ethics.- 2. Alan Gewirth's Attempt.- 3. The Question of Death.- 4. Good life No More And No Less Than the Life of Humans.- 5. The Rationality of Radical Choice.- 6. Humanitude vs. Human Nature.- 4. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity.- 1. Recapitulation and Strategy 91 2. The Naturalistic Notion of " Subjectivity" and Reason vs. Cause.- 3. The Thesis of Subjectivity.- 4. Ideality and Validity Claims.- 5. Subjectivity and the Lifeworld Experience.- 6. The Transcendence of Subjectivity.- 7. Constitutive as Opposed to Conative Subjectivity.- 5. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First " Ought".- 1. Subjectivity and Humanitude.- 2. Radical Choice fulfilled and the Normative Redeemed.- 3. Freedom and the Normative.- 4. " Ought" and Responsibility.- 5. ?Value), ?Disvalue? and ?Non-Value?.- 6. Pre-Moralic and Moralic; ?Moral?, ?Immoral? and ?Amoral?.- 7. Semi-Final Remarks and Anticipations.