Subject: Re: HAB: #2: Autonomy as dogma
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:56:56 GMT


>From: Martin Blanchard <tintamar-AT-club-internet.fr>
>Reply-To: habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: HAB: #2: Autonomy as dogma
>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:40:40 -0400
>
>Dear list members;
>
>I have yet another question. I remember having read, somewhere in
>french, Habermas saying that individual autonomy was for him the
>ultimate, or perhaps the only, dogma ("un dogme"). Trying to remember
>where he said it (I think it was in an interview, maybe the one with
>Ferry), I then asked myself if the expression is correctly
>translated. Does anybody know the original german expression, and
>where Habermas used it?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Martin Blanchard
>

I think you have seen this expression in Between Facts and Norms, chapter 9, 
p.445. Speaking about the normative content of discourse theory, Habermas 
says:
'Certainly, this understanding, like the rule of law itself retains a 
dogmatic core: the idea of autonomy according to which human beings act as 
free subjects only insofar as they obey just those laws they give themselves 
in accordance with insights they have acquired intersubjectively. This is 
'dogmatic' only in a harmless sense. It expresses a tension between 
facticity and validity...'

Natacha Lajoie



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