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Habermas's Philosophy on Enlightenment and Communicative Rationality
TLDR Jürgen Habermas aimed to rework and preserve the positive aspects of the Enlightenment, emphasizing communicative rationality and shared values in successful communication and political strategy, contrasting with the decline in citizen participation in the public sphere in modern times.
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The philosopher Jürgen Habermas believed in reworking and preserving the positive aspects of the Enlightenment despite its perceived failures and pathologies.
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Enlightenment thinkers like Adorno and Horkheimer criticized the reliance on instrumental reason, highlighting its potential dangers and limitations in determining desirable human actions.
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Habermas aims to achieve useful information about reality through intersubjectivity and communicative rationality, emphasizing the importance of shared values and norms in successful communication.
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Habermas argues that communication with others, grounded in shared norms and values, can inform political strategy and justify liberal democracy without relying on external sources.
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Human beings can coordinate through genuine, intelligible conversations based on shared values, leading to rational collective agreements, contrasting with strategic rationality where individuals may not genuinely believe in what they are saying.
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Democracy is a political strategy rooted in communicative rationality, a process of genuine conversation and agreement-making that extends beyond politics into everyday decision-making, but modern changes have led to decreased citizen participation in the public sphere, historically excluding the peasantry from political deliberations.
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The Enlightenment led to the emergence of the public sphere, where the middle class could engage in political discussions and voice their opinions, but modernity has seen a decline in citizen participation in communicative rationality.
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The public sphere and communicative rationality are essential for citizens to engage in discussions and decide on a path moving forward, but modern media has shifted towards selling values and candidates rather than fostering genuine dialogue.
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