Intersubjektyvi Hermeneutinė Sprendimo Etika: Tarp J. Habermaso Idealios Komunikacijos Ir M. Foucault Gyvybingos Dialogo Įtampos
Intersubjective Hermeneutical Ethics of Decision: Between Habermas’ Ideal Communication and Foucault’s Vital Tension in a Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses intersubjective hermeneutical decision ethics based on dialogue. Dialogue is highlighted with an emphasis on dialogue in the context of today’s nihilistic vocation of hermeneutics (G. Vattimo). The question is about the extent of the idea of hermeneutical dialogue and what transformations it is experiencing. Standing critically on the grounds of Derrida’s ethics of absolute hospitality, the topicality of decision ethics (R. Kearney) is also highlighted in the context of current society. This theory suggests an ethics of unradical hermeneutical decision, which enacts some decisions about the other, However, it conceives the interpretability of these decisions. The article refers to J. Habermas’ ideal communication based on a rational mind according to democracy ideals. But rational communication is distorted by various power practices in our postdemocratical context, and these practices are not defeated by rational reflection. When faith is lost for the possibility of positive dialogue and mutual understanding, then there arises the danger of relativism and self-destructive fragmentation. A dynamic social dialogue which raises the tension between dialogue and power relationships is more adequate to the conditions of today’s postdemocracy. This tension is analyzed in relation to N. D avey’s hermeneutical unquiet understanding and G. Vattimo’s nihilistic vocation of hermeneutics.

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