From: <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: HABERMAS' IDEAL SPEECH SITUATION
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:41:04 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)


On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:00:10 -0400 Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org> wrote:

>  I must be moved by the struggle against irrationalism, in spite of my 
skepticism of procedural thinking.

For Habermas, if you refuse procedural rationality you're irrational (maybe 
even postmodern!), communicatively incompetent (skeptical is ok, as long as you 
agree in the end), psychotic or, if nothing else, immoral.

There has long since been something that has bothered me about this approach.

ken