The Radical Choice and Moral Theory : Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity Hardback
by Zhenming Zhai
Part of the Analecta Husserliana series
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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.
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- Pages:194 pages, XI, 194 p.
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:31/10/1994
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- ISBN:9780792328919
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- Pages:194 pages, XI, 194 p.
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- Publication Date:31/10/1994
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- ISBN:9780792328919
