The Radical Choice and Moral Theory: Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

Zhenming Zhai

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 1994-10-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780792328919

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0501-9

Dimensions: 229.0cm x152.0cm

Pages: 194.0