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“All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.”

Quote by Jurgen Habermas

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Jurgen Habermas

German philosopher and sociologist, known for his work in critical theory, communication theory, and political philosophy. His major works include 'The Theory of Communicative Action' and 'Legitimation Crisis'. more

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“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.”

Giving Shows Political Purpose Social Opinion Greater Amount Exercise Demand Authority Vote Foundation Rational Abstract Manipulation Spheres Public Opinion

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“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”

Mean Long Self Philosophy Understanding Research Absolutes Categories Self Understanding Great Philosophy

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“Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.”

Has Beens Philosophy Names Movement Position Theory Philosophical Regard One Time Theory Of Knowledge

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“The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves.”

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“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.”

Kind Certain Literature My Own Students Genius Bed

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“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.”

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“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.”

Action Social Principles Relation Determine Critical Statements Transformed Dependence Frozen Theoretical Social Science Regularity Social Action

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“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.”

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“The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”

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“I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.”

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