File spoon-archives/habermas.archive/habermas_2001/habermas.0109, message 168


Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:18:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gary E Davis <gedavis1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HAB: Skepticism and Moral Motivation



I want to just add a note to my just-sent posting.

I don't doubt that I "sound" very confused in the previous posting. I
was writing quickly. "Moral" talk about norms confuses
identity-anchored ethical values and the subset of social regulatives
that are approved in accord with one's ethical bacground. Whether a
reason is *actually* normative for action or just claimed to be
normative (the proffered norm is refused) depends on deliberation
relative to one's ethical universe. Whether a norm is
action-orienting for my purposes or regulative for *our* interactions
(a product of a mutual approval process) is a distinction between
ethical activity and pragmatic translation of varying ethical
understandings into consensual regulatives across variable
backgrounds. 

Now, have I confused things even more?


G

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