Justification and Application

Remarks on Discourse Ethics

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by Jurgen Habermas,

Translated by Ciaran P. Cronin

MIT Press

Due/Published September 1994, 232 pages, paper

ISBN 0262581361

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 imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse.