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The radical choice and moral theory : through communicative argumentation to phenomenological subjectivity

Title
The radical choice and moral theory : through communicative argumentation to phenomenological subjectivity / Zhenming Zhai.
Author
Zhai, Zhenming.
Publication
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, ©1994.

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World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning.
Description
xi, 189 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts. With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.
Series Statement
Analecta Husserliana ; v. 45
Uniform Title
Analecta Husserliana ; v. 45.
Subject
  • Ethics
  • Phenomenology
  • ethics (philosophy)
  • phenomenology
  • Ethics
  • Phenomenology
  • Ethiek
  • Fenomenologie
Note
  • "Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Issue and the Background --- 2. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims --- 3. The Necessity of Radical Choice 4. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity --- 5. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the First "Ought."
ISBN
  • 0792328914
  • 9780792328919
LCCN
94016408
OCLC
  • ocm30438203
  • 30438203
  • SCSB-9508917
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library