At the List's discretion, perhaps Habermas's belief in the basic human interest in emancipation can also be celebrated in our acknowledgement and support for...
Matt, The people on the streets of Iran are not revolutionaries (see the writings of Ganji and Ebadi). The call is for democratic reform. This is neither a...
Ken, I believe you read the situation exactly right. But I also agree with commentators today who say that the "putsch" has succeeded in quieting dissent for...
Ken, Gary, ... will have enormous implications (dare I say "revelations"?). The pinnacle Mullahs have been shown as implicated in a secular power fraud. Their...
A policeman at Wikipedia believes that this Habermas group should not be listed among the "External links" of the Wikipedia Article on Habermas, and he keeps...
I've been thinking lately about the idea of progress, in relation to its presumption of developmental preferences ("this" is progressive; "that's" not---no?),...
Perhaps Habermas's notion of progress relates to achieving a constitutive universal hypergood of emancipation via discourse ethics to achieve mutual...
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=34116 The passage citing Habermas reads: The philosopher Jürgen Habermas is even more specific. He...
As Thomas Gregersen notes, "the misquote can now be found on over 6,000 web sites," and he provides a June update of his May discussion of this: "A misquote...
Thanks, Thomas Gregersen!: [in German] http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-important-habermas-handbook.html If Tom McCarthy isn't facilitating the...
James Fishkin, Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, writes recently about putting deliberative democracy into practice, which "his" Center does: ...
http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-tomasello-wins-hegel-prize-2009.html This formal occasion may suggest increasing collaboration between ...
In case it matters to anyone, it was Frank Fischer, not James Fishkin, who sought to implement Critical Theory in public policy, not in the mid-90s, but more...
Dear Listers, As is known, Habermas takes critical theory away from the problematic of instrumental reason and towards functionalist reason and systems...
Phil, Check out the free first chapter to Uwe Steinhof, The Philosophy of JH: A Critical Introduction: http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199547807.pdf ...
Well done. Rettig Gary: I should have indicated explicitly that I was forwarding a response from a non-subscriber, Vic Peterson. Non-subscribers may post by...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104467§ionid=351020101 I don't recall ever coming across Habermas's "Theory of Civil Disobedience." I'm also not sure...
Washington, DC—The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce its 2009 awards for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice...
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=17917 Excerpt: At this point, the Tehran thriller writer's account is de-routed by an avalanche of names and...
Especially since professor Habermas is in the U.S. to host a seminar on political theology, I think it's appropriate to highlight articles that indicate the...
I should add that I'm looking for entrances into philosophical importances in institutional policies, not more runaround about the politicization of religion...
I have to say that Thomas Gregersen is doing a great service by all the posting he does via his blog: http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/ I'm glad that he's...
Holly L. Wilson notes in _Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology_ (SUNY, 2006) that Kant never taught his _Critique of Pure Reason_, but taught his anthropology every...
I have my own reasons for interest ephemeral interest in Kant's anthropology, unaware of what Thomas McCarthy has been up to. Now I see, just released and...
Yes, interesting. but isn't that, essentially, Hannah Arendt's line of arguing from the seventies? We have a rather famous edition here in Germany of her...
But Kant is clear about this throughout his Critiques. In the first Critique he defines philosophy, in the Architectonic section, as a teleology of human...
Thanks, Omar, for your lucid synoptic. You seem to express the heart of Kant. I don't know much about Kant as such, due to influence earlier in my life by...
Re: a note on pragmatic anthropology What is interesting in Kant's treatment of the highest good is that it is a function of his reflective judgment, and thus...
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