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The Radical Choice and Moral Theory :

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The Radical Choice and Moral Theory :

[Book]

Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

by Zhenming Zhai.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1994

(201 pages).

Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, 45.

1. Introduction: The Issue and the Background --; {sect} 1. The Is-Ought Controversy --; {sect} 2. The Continental Tradition --; {sect} 3. Communicative Rationality and My Aim in this Program --; 2. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims --; {sect} 1. Communicative Rationality: the Counter-Factual --; {sect} 2. Communicative vs. Cognitive Rationality --; {sect} 3. Initial Principles --; {sect} 4. Human Reason as the Only Justificatory Power of Values --; {sect} 5. Normative Validity Claims and Cultural Relativism --; 3. The Necessity of Radical Choice --; {sect} 1. Habermas' Communicative Ethics --; {sect} 2. Alan Gewirth's Attempt --; {sect} 3. The Question of Death --; {sect} 4. Good life No More And No Less Than the Life of Humans --; {sect} 5. The Rationality of Radical Choice --; {sect} 6. Humanitude vs. Human Nature --; 4. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity --; {sect} 1. Recapitulation and Strategy 91 {sect} 2. The Naturalistic Notion of ' Subjectivity' and Reason vs. Cause --; {sect} 3. The Thesis of Subjectivity --; {sect} 4. Ideality and Validity Claims --; {sect} 5. Subjectivity and the Lifeworld Experience --; {sect} 6. The Transcendence of Subjectivity --; {sect} 7. Constitutive as Opposed to Conative Subjectivity --; 5. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First ' Ought' --; {sect} 1. Subjectivity and Humanitude --; {sect} 2. Radical Choice fulfilled and the Normative Redeemed --; {sect} 3. Freedom and the Normative --; {sect} 4. ' Ought' and Responsibility --; {sect} 5.?Value),?Disvalue? and?Non-Value? --; {sect} 6. Pre-Moralic and Moralic; ?Moral?,?Immoral? and?Amoral? --; {sect} 7. Semi-Final Remarks and Anticipations.

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts. With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.

Ethics.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy (General)

by Zhenming Zhai.

Zhenming Zhai

[Book]

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