Quotes by Jurgen Habermas

Jurgen Habermas

[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

Frozen

Principles

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

Danger

Embarrassing

Uncertain

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Government

Scope

September 11

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.

Alternatives

Regulation

Sides

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.

Exercise

Giving

Political

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.

Events

Order

Understanding

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Disappointment

May

Political

Each murder is one too many.

Murder

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Moral

Rehabilitation

Views

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

Cynical

Goal

Terrorism

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Acting

Action

Afghanistan

Agreement

Alternatives

Art

Attitude

Avant Garde

Betrayal

Cities

Claims

Clever

Confused

Country

Court Judges

Cynical

Danger

Decision

Demand

Development

Differences

Disappointment

Disruption

Distinction

Embarrassing

Employment

Encounters

Enemy

Essence

Events

Exercise

Expression

Fall

Fighting

Found

Frozen

Fundamentals

Giving

Goal

Government

Historical

House

Icons

Ideas

Identity

Imagine

Impact

Important

Islamic

Israel

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Quotes by Jurgen Habermas

Jurgen Habermas

[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.

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

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.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Each murder is one too many.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

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