Discourse Ethics beyond Apel and Habermas. A Realistic Relaunch

The Philosophical Significance of Binary Categories in Habermas ’ s Discourse Ethics

The philosophical programme associated with the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas has been widely discussed in the literature. The fact that Habermas has devoted a considerable part of his work to the elaboration of this philosophical programme indicates that discourse ethics can be regarded as a cornerstone of his communication-theoretic approach to society. In essence, Habermas conceives of...

Knowledge and Human Liberation Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond

Knowledge and human liberation are epochal challenges and a key question here is what the meaning of knowledge and the meaning of human liberation are. This article argues that knowledge means not only knowledge of self, society and nature as conceived within the predominant dualistic logic of modernity but also knowledge of transcendental self beyond sociological role playing, knowledge of nat...

A Contrastive Study of Persian and English Written Discourse: Ellipsis in Realistic Novels

  This study aspires to examine the concept of ellipsis by comparing and contrasting English and Persian written texts. For this purpose, three Persian novels and three English ones were selected. These novels were analyzed carefully; they were compared and contrasted for types and amount of ellipsis used, through a Chi-square analysis.  The results of the data analysis revealed that various t...

Morality, Law and Deliberative Democracy - An Enquiry Concerning Jürgen Habermas ́s and Karl-Otto Apel ́s Discursive Programs of

Discourse and descriptive business ethics

Watson (2003: 168) claims that ‘although increasing academic attention is being paid to business ethics, the ways in which ethical consideration come into activities and decisions of organizational managers have been examined in a very limited way’. This article contributes by suggesting an interesting way to study moral managerial decisions is studying these decisions in their discursive conte...