Meaning, Thruth and Ethical Value
Meaning, Thruth and Ethical Value

Summary/Abstract: This inquiry is, in at least one crucial respect, archaeological. It addresses a proposal — Habermas’ theory of universal pragmatics — which its author, in more recent times, has more or less laid to rest (even if he has not explicitly repudiated it). In order to fulfill his guiding intention of showing that moral-practical assertions can be validated, we have seen Habermas move away from the theory of speech acts which he put forward in the essay “What is Universal Pragmatics?” towards a theory of moral-practical argumentation which dominates the whole tenor and direction of his discussion in The Theory of Communicative Action.

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