Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:52:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HAB: (hypo)critical theory


--- Vunch-AT-aol.com wrote:
Re: Review of Heath's Co. 
> Personally, I feel that most people are too cognitively and 
> linguistically incompetent to reach Habermas' standards.  I am 
> so sure of this that all I really experience in this society is a
great 
> deal of conflict and it is all because of invalid norms and the 
> attempt to coerce others to follow them. So, on this most central
> point of Habermas's entire oeuvre, I am not persuaded that 
> Heath deserves a read.

You might alter your frustrating experience by realizing that you are
one of the very people you complain about.

Seeing society through the filter of Habermas's theory is your own
invalid norm.

The attitude with which you expect others in society to recognize your
invalid norm is itself coercive in character.

Apparently you are too cognitively and linguistically incompetent to
understand society beyond this particular theory.

--Tom



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