Înțelegerea acțiunii sociale în cadrul teoriei raționalității comunicative a lui Jürgen Habermas
Understanding Social Action within the Theory of Communicative Rationality of Jürgen Habermas

Author(s): Ioan Lesutan
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: theory of communicative rationality; social action; strategic action; communicative action
Summary/Abstract: The theory of communicative rationality by Jürgen Habermas differentiates between two kinds of social action: the success-oriented strategic action and understandingoriented communicative action. Strategic action is a purposive-rational action oriented towards other persons from a utilitarian point of view, for example the calculative manipulation of others. In other words, an actor who acts strategically is primarily trying to achieve his own ends. In contrast, communicative action is oriented towards mutual conflict resolution through understanding. Actors here do not primarily aim at accomplishing their own success, but want to harmonize their plans of actions with the other participants. This attempt to sustain consensus is based on the intersubjective recognition of criticisable validity claims. Thus, communicative action is the opposite of strategic action. In addition, Habermas argues that the use of language with an orientation of understanding is the”original” mode of language.

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