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The Role of Ethics in Social Theory
Essays From a Habermasian Perspective
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Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 260 pages |
| Release Date: July 1991 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-0652-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-0652-6
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Price: $32.95
Paperback - 260 pages |
| Release Date: July 1991 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-0653-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-0653-3
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This book defends the derivation of the ethical principle of universalizability presented by Jurgen Habermas, and illustrates the importance of this principle for both social science and social policy. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of social theory, Smith divides the theory into nine distinct branches, each devoted to a fundamental question; three branches fall under social science, three under social ethics, and the last three make up social policy. He shows in detail how each branch has its own methodologies and basic categories, while being systematically connected to the others as well. Next, he makes a compelling defense of Habermas's main contribution to social ethics and contrasts Habermas's rational foundation for ethics with the decisionism defended by Max Weber. Smith then examines the implications of the principle of universalizability for a number of important issues in social theory.
Tony Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Logic of Marx's Capital, also published by SUNY Press.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part One: The Framework
Chapter I. The Role of Philosophical Discourse in Social Theory
Introduction
Social Science
Social Ethics
Social Policy
Conclusion
Part Two: Some Ethical Issues in the Social Sciences
Chapter II. The Scope of the Social Sciences in Weber and Habermas
Weber
Habermas
Critical Social Science
Chapter III. Agricultural Science and Ideology
Ideological Mechanisms in Agricultural Science
Ideology in the Family Farm Debate
Chapter IV. Two Models of Historical Materialism
Cohen
Habermas
Part Three: Some Ethical Evaluations of Capitalism
Chapter V. On Liberty and Equality
Chapter VI. Are Entrepreneurial Profits Prima Facie Deserved?
The Goal of Market Exchange
Entrepreneurial Profits: Genus and Species
Conclusion
Part Four: Three Normative Models
Chapter VII. Kant's Political Philosophy: Rechtsstaat or Council Democracy?
Kant's A Priori Argument for a Pure Republic (Rechtsstaat) and Federation of Republics
The Empirical Premises in Kant's Argument
Sketch of an Alternative Model of Institutions Embodying Kantian Principles
Chapter VIII. Rawls and the Structural Limits of the Capitalist State
Rawls's Normative Model
Structural Analysis of Rawl's Model
Conclusion
Chapter IX. Habermas and History: The Institutionalization of Discourse as Historical Project
The Analysis of Modernity
Habermas's Normative Model
Evaluation of Habermas's Model
The Institutionalization of Discourse: An Alternative Model
Part Five: Some Issues of Strategy and Tactics
Chapter X. Ethics and Power in the Work of Jürgen Habermas
Habermas's Communicative Ethic
Habermas on Power
Habermas on the Priority of Communicative Action
Conclusion
Chapter XI. Habermas on the University: Bildung in the Age of Technology
The Changing Function of the University
Two Alternative Strategies Regarding the Contemporary University
Habermas's Strategic Orientation
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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