Category: Social Philosophy

  • Communicative Action: Habermas’s Alternative to Instrumental Reason

    How Habermas developed a theory of communication that offers an alternative to purely strategic or instrumental rationality, showing how mutual understanding through dialogue provides a foundation for social coordination that neither materialist nor idealist philosophies adequately address.

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  • The Public Sphere: Habermas and the Architecture of Democracy

    Exploring Habermas’ influential concept of the public sphere as the social space where citizens engage in critical debate about common concerns, and how this idea illuminates both the possibilities and challenges of democratic discourse in our digital age.