Habermas and the Neoaristotelians. The Ethics of Discourse in Jürgen Habermas and the Challenge of Neoaristotelianism (Athens 2006)
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ……..13
Introduction ……………..15
PART ONE
1. NEOARISTOTELIANISM: ETHICS AND POLITICS …. 41
- “Old conservatives”, “young conservatives”, “neoconservatives”………………………………. 47
- Neoaristotelianism and Neohistoricism ……….... 60
- The ethics of discourse between “moral”
and “ethical” questions…….……………………. 75
- NEOARISTOTELIANISM AS A PHILOSOPHY
OF THE WORLDVIEWS …………………………….. 79
- Virtue and autonomy: why the program of the
enlightenment “had to fail”?……………………. 79
- Justice and virtue: the rationality of traditions in Alasdair MacIntyre ………………………………………... 94
- Authenticity and autonomy in modern ethics …. 102
- Towards a “universalist theory of the good”
in Charles Taylor …………………………………112
- The weltanschauunglich character of Neoraristotelianism: Moralität and Sittlichkeit …………………………120
- NEOARISTOTELIANISM AND NEOCONSERVATISM: THE CRITIQUE OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS..………………..133
- John Rawls’ theory of justice and Jürgen Habermas’
controversy with communitarian
Neoaristotelianism ………………………………….133
- Neoaristotelianism and conventional moral
consciousness ……………………………………….136
- Neoaristotelianism as the
“ideology of phronesis” ……………………………145
PART TWO
- MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION (1983): JÜRGEN HABERMAS’ CONFRONTATION WITH MORAL SKEPTICISM …………………………………………….149
- Neoaristotelianism as the“salvatory farewell to philosophy” ………………...150
- The seven rounds of confrontation with moral skepticism …………………… 154
- The ethics of discourse faced up against the reconstructive sciences: Laurence Kohlberg’s moral psychology …165
- The critique of moral formalism and the “problem of application” ………… 175
- KLAUS GÜNTHER: THE CRITERION OF ANGEMESSENHEIT IN THE ETHICS OF DISCOURSE …………………………… 184
- Action, normative principle, and situation in the ethics of discourse … 184
- “Discourses of justification” and “discourses of application” …..…… 188
- Angemessenheit and the “problem of application”................................ 193
- REMARKS ON THE ETHICS OF DISCOURSE (1991): JUSTIFICATION AND APPLICATION IN JÜRGEN HABERMAS’ REVISED ETHICS OF DISCOURSE …………………………………………… 198
a. “Moral discourses” versus “ethical discourses”: the priority of the “right” over the “good” …………………………………… 199
b. The ethics of discourse between Kant and Hegel ……... 210
c. From the discursive theory of ethics to the
discursive theory of law ……………………………………. 220
Excursus: The “problem of application” in Karl-Otto Apel’s
ethics of discourse ………………………………………….. 227
PART THREE
1. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICS OF DISCOURSE........... 235
I. Albrecht Wellmer .......................................235
a. The “negativist” orientation of the ethics of discourse ....... 236
b. The non-applicability of the ethics of discourse ................... 245
c. Jürgen Habermas and the ideal of communitarian freedom...255
II. Seyla Benhabib ......... 259
a. Towards an “interactive post-metaphysical universalism” ...... 259
b. Hegel’s shadow over the ethics of discourse ....... 265
2. THE “PROBLEM OF APPLICATION” BETWEEN NEOARISTOTELIAN ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE ETHICS OF DISCOURSE ...... 271
a. Intersubjectivity and consensus ........... 271
b. Hermeneutics versus critique of ideology: the heritage of a controversy .... 297
c. Hermeneutic understanding and application ..... 306
d. Moral judgment as phronesis: Kant and Aristotle ..... 319
Conclusion ...........330
APPENDIX ONE
Stelios Virvidakis, The Metaethical horizons of Jürgen Habermas’ ethics of discourse .....343
APPENDIX TWO
Konstantine Kavoulakos, The self-overcoming of formalism in Jürgen Habermas’ discourse ethics ....... 375
BIBLIOGRAPHY ....... 385
INDEX OF NAMES ........ 407
INDEX OF CONCEPTS ......411
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