Discursive ethics and political democracy

Discursive ethics or communicative ethics were born in the seventies fathered by K.O. Apel and J. Habermas, and today they are widely known; it is a current of such life and vigour that its very creators have engaged in lively polemics. This paper, starting from K.O. Apel' s texts, attempts to...

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Autores:
Cortina, Adela
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
1993
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/29700
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/29700
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/19748/
Palabra clave:
discursive ethics
political democracy
communicativ ethics
ética discursiva
ética comunicativa
democracia política
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:Discursive ethics or communicative ethics were born in the seventies fathered by K.O. Apel and J. Habermas, and today they are widely known; it is a current of such life and vigour that its very creators have engaged in lively polemics. This paper, starting from K.O. Apel' s texts, attempts to explore in what measure this discursive ethics provides philosophical foundations for political democracy and to determine the basic elements  necessary for the construction of a universal ethics.