 | Charles Davis - 1980 - 216 pages
...interest', he writes, 'in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus' (1972b: 314 - Habermas's italics). What Habermas claims to have done is to have found a... | |
 | David Held - 1980 - 516 pages
...responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is ... language. Through its structure, autonomy and responsibility are posited for us. Our first sentence expresses unequivocably the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus. JORGEN HABERMAS, Knowledge and... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Calvin O. Schrag - 1983 - 610 pages
...role of language as a point of departure for transcendental reflection. In contrast Habermas states: "What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus" (KHI, p. 314). Habermas's argument against pure theoria and Husserl may at first seem ironic.... | |
 | Dominick LaCapra - 1983 - 356 pages
...human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus. Taken together, autonomy and responsibility constitute the only Idea that we possess a priori... | |
 | John B. Thompson, John Brookshire Thompson - 1983 - 274 pages
...human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose nature we can know: language.'39 In his subsequent writings, Habermas attempts to substantiate the suggestion that the... | |
 | Seyla Benhabib - 1986 - 478 pages
...Problem der Begründung von Werturteilen," p. 92. 23. Cf. one of the earliest formulations of this: "What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...structure, autonomy and responsibility are posited for us" (Habermas, Appendix, "Knowledge and Human Interests: A General Perspective," in Knowledge and Human... | |
 | Stanley Rosen - 1987 - 222 pages
...basis in the natural history of the human species." These achievements are fundamentally linguistic. "What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose nature we can know: language."^ He goes on to say: From the beginning philosophy has presumed that the autonomy and responsibility... | |
 | Steven B. Smith - 1991 - 266 pages
...human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus."21 The idea that speech aims at the attainment of consensus rests on a number of premises.... | |
 | Axel Honneth - 1993 - 380 pages
...human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose...unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus.45 Habermas has already insisted upon a dialogue situation free of domination as a necessary... | |
 | Axel Honneth, Hans Joas - 1991 - 332 pages
...human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose nature we can know: language.'2 Habermas argues that in ordinary speech actors make implicit claims about the validity... | |
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The human interest in autonomy and responsibility is not mere fancy, for it can be apprehended a priori. What raises us out of nature is the only thing whose nature we can know: language. Through its structure, autonomy and responsibility are posited... 
