Dialogue Ethics and the Problem of Truth

Author: [German] Habermas Shen Qingkai
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Publish Date: 2005-11-25
Features: This book is divided into three parts. The first part is a record of an open discussion held by Habermas in the Cartesian Lecture Hall of the Sorbonne University in Paris in February 2001. The many issues mentioned in the text touch upon some important aspects of Habermas's theory, and his responses also help people to understand his theoretical claims more comprehensively and deeply. The second part is a record of a lecture he gave in Paris at the same time, invited by the magazine Parler at the Centre Pompidou. In this lecture, he synthesizes the themes discussed in his recent work Truth and Justification and summarizes the inherent theoretical and practical concepts of truth in communicative ethics. In the third part, Habermas, based on his discourse ethics, excellently distinguishes and analyzes the specific applications of practical reason from three different perspectives: practical issues, ethical issues, and moral issues.