The response of discourse ethics to the moral challenge of the human situation as such and especially today :
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[Book]
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Mercier lectures, Louvain-la-Neuve, March 1999 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Karl-Otto Apel.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leuven :
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Peeters,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vii, 118 pages ;
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24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Morality and the meaning of life,
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13
ISSN of Series
0928-2742 ;
GENERAL NOTES
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Also published in French in the series Bibliothèque Philosophique de Louvain (Peters 2000).
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ist lecture. The human situation as a challenge to ethics: the development of the external challenge to morality from Hominization to the present time -- 2nd lecture. Third and fourth course of a reconstruction of the human cultural evolution: the internal resources of morality from hominization to the present time -- 3rd lecture. The situation after 1945: the sharpening of the external challenges to the ethics and the insufficiency of its internal resources in the East and in the West. The need for a new foundation -- 4th lecture. First introduction to discourse ethics: the novel paradigm of a transcedental-pragmatic foundation of ethics -- 5th lecture. First introduction to discourse ethics continued: discourse ethics as a transformation of Kantian ethics -- 6th lecture. Second introduction to discourse ethics: the reception of the Hermeneutic-linguistic-pragmatic turn of philosophy and the overcoming of historism-relativism -- 7th lecture. Application problems of discourse ethics. pt. 1. the distinction between pt. A and pt. B of a history-related ethics of (Co-) responsibility -- 8th lecture. Application problems of discourse ethics. pt. 2. How to deal with the functional constraints of the sub-systems of society: politics, law and economy.