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The Radical Choice and Moral Theory

Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Zhenming Zhai

    1. Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 45)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Issue and its Background

    • Zhenming Zhai
    Pages 1-22

  3. Communicative Rationality and the Justification of Normative Validity Claims

    • Zhenming Zhai
    Pages 23-56

  4. The Necessity of Radical Choice

    • Zhenming Zhai
    Pages 57-89

  5. Meaning, Ideality and Subjectivity

    • Zhenming Zhai
    Pages 91-133

  6. Radical Choice Fulfilled and the Normative Ought

    • Zhenming Zhai
    Pages 135-175

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 177-194
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About this book

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation. Moving to the end of Habermas's conception of the communicative action, he introduces the concept of `radical choice' as the key to the transition from the descriptive to the normative. Phenomenological subjectivity of the intersubjective life-world is being vindicated as the `arch-value' of all derivative values, or the first principle for all normative precepts.
With exceptional acumen and mastery of the philosophical argument, the author -- a young native Chinese lately trained in a Western university -- delineates a fascinating route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology.
A noteworthy contribution to the interplay between the Anglo--American and Continental schools of philosophy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA

    Zhenming Zhai

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Radical Choice and Moral Theory

  • Book Subtitle: Through Communicative Argumentation to Phenomenological Subjectivity

  • Authors: Zhenming Zhai

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0501-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2891-9Published: 31 October 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4223-9Published: 18 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0501-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 194

  • Topics: Ethics, Phenomenology, Anthropology, Philosophy of Man

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