caa a22 4500 378858297 CHVBK 20180305123340.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200311 xx s 000 0 mul 10.1515/SATS.2003.67 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/SATS.2003.67 Hedberg Petra Senteret i Mexico, Arne Naess Centre for Ecology and Philosophy. phedberg@online.no Discursive conditions and contextual presuppositions. Habermas versus Apel [Elektronische Daten] [Petra Hedberg] The terms "morality” and "ethical life” refer to the relationship between Kant's universalistic and Hegel's "contextualised” account of morality. In this essay, the problem of universalism and contextualism will be addressed to Apel's and Habermas's positions. I will divide the theme into three main topics: 1) The historical reconstruction of the rational conditions of discourse ethics within Habermas's position: in which sense could this approach lead to a contextualism? 2) The difficulty with establishing a non-contextual justification of the discursive, rational conditions. Habermas's reconstructive approach will be confronted with Apel's "strict reflectional” approach which relies on stronger universalistic presuppositions. 3) This last topic will focus on the main difference between Habermas's and Apel's perspectives. This is connected to the double function of the rational "symmetry and reciprocity” -conditions: they are seen as consensual and simultaneously meta-normative conditions. Their meta-normative character is Apel's main concern, and seen as vital to social criticism. © Philosophia Press 2003 SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 4/2(2003-11), 67-92 1600-1974 4:2<67 2003 4 SATS https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2003.67 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS.2003.67 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hedberg Petra Senteret i Mexico, Arne Naess Centre for Ecology and Philosophy. phedberg@online.no NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- SATS Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 4/2(2003-11), 67-92 1600-1974 4:2<67 2003 4 SATS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter