Livre | Chapitre
Raising validity claims for reasons
pp. 209-231
Résumé
Within Apelian transcendental pragmatics of communication, central importance is given to the project of grounding some morally normative requirements in the practice of argumentative discourse. According to Karl-Otto Apel, the dialogical practice of fully engaged argumentative discourse necessarily involves conceptually normative presuppositions some of which have a universally valid and recognizably moral content. The central contention of a "discourse ethics" is to identify conceptually normative presuppositions of argumentation, to select those that are morally charged, and then to develop whatever thin moral content they have into a coherent core conception of a morality with unassailable rational credentials. This chapter offers an elaborate defense of Apel's original intuition that by reflexive recourse to practices of discoursive argumentation we can ground in a rationally definitive way certain normative requirements (moral and other) which rational persons as such must meet.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Kim Halla, Hoeltzel Steven (2016) Transcendental inquiry: its history, methods and critiques. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 209-231
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40715-9_10
Citation complète:
Kettner Matthias, 2016, Raising validity claims for reasons. In H. Kim & S. Hoeltzel (eds.) Transcendental inquiry (209-231). Dordrecht, Springer.