Date: 	Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:18:57 PDT
Subject: Re: HAB: Normativity


On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:54:36 -0400  Blue8682-AT-aol.com 
wrote:

> In a message dated 10/3/98 9:27:14 AM Eastern Daylight 
Time, kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca writes:

> << However while Kant attempted 
>  to ground the moral law in a transcendental analysis - 
>  Habermas must ground it in pragmatics.  >>

> Habermas does not ground the moral law, he grounds the 
justification of norms...

Right, Habermas attempts to ground (justify) (D) in light of (U) 
(which is derived from a formal pragmatic anaysis).

The objectively oriented procedures of science illuminate the 
'always already' presuppositions of speech.  These 
presuppositions can be formulated in a 'rule' (which serves 
more like a guiding principle than a 'rule' in the traditional 
sense).  So the reconstructive sciences have derived (U) from 
the intuitive and fundamental know-how and how-know of 
language use.  (U) is the moral principle and outlines how 
argreement is made possible.  (D) is the principle that a moral 
theorists attempts to justify.

ken




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