Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

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by Jurgen Habermas,

Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen and Christian Lenhardt

MIT Press

Due/Published October 1992, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0262581183

This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. 'Discourse ethics' attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse.