Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:26:59 EST
Subject: Re: [HAB:] What makes a human right universal?


In a message dated 11/3/2003 8:36:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mwtippett-AT-sympatico.ca writes:
Where or what is the changeable for Habermas and how is this
accessed such that the likelihood of an improved tomorrow is increased?


It seems that the changeable is nature, a mere succession of events that 
lacks any sense without the moral interpretations of humans.  The univeralisizing 
of basic democratic constitutional law is the forming or organizing of a 
consistency of interpretation shared among all.  Nature is lawless and is merely 
self-reproducing, not self-organizing.  Nature is the object of our 
interpretation and not much more than matter in motion.  The existence of consciousness 
organizes our interpretations of nature.

Fred Welfare


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