Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:13:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HAB: Re: Review of Heath's Co. 


"But, Habermas' point is very clear, norms MUST be justified" WITHIN
THE FRAME OF OUR THEORY.

"most people fail to realize that some of the norms they are following
are invalid" WITHIN THE FRAME OF OUR THEORY.

"when these people are asked to justify the norms," WITHIN THE FRAME OF
OUR THEORY "they become violent and conflict begins."

Habermas's theory, like all critical social theory, is a
tool-to-be-applied, not a reflection of 'how things really are'.

Theory should work as an extension, a compliment, an
intersubjective-mediation-only framework when it comes to
pre-and-post-modern 'irrationality'.

Theory should not try to displace a person's experientially subjective,
private worldview.

That way totalitarianism lies..

--Tom

--- Vunch-AT-aol.com wrote:
> But, Habermas' point is very clear, norms MUST be justified.  
> There are valid norms and there are invalid norms.  But, since 
> most people fail to realize that some of the norms they are 
> following are invalid,  when these people are asked to
> justify the norms, they become violent and conflict begins.




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