PHIL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Discourse Ethics, Late Modernity

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 235
• Professor: Curtis Sommerlatte

Document Summary

In late modernity a transnationalization or globalization has developed in the economic and the political, which also carries with it a cultural globalism. Ascribing to a global ethic presents two difficulties of consideration: 1) liberal thought maintains that. "institutionalized human rights are not unaltered human rights . They will rather resemble political rights , which are recognized by states on the basis of their political culture and their value priorities. The communicational space would not be "citizenship shared by a limited community, but a space for deliberation in which all interested parties participate. This international communication community differs from the thought of discourse ethics, since a. The distinction is important, since it oscillates the essential ethical precepts between being universal, and therefore binding for every member of an ethical community, or being contextual and valid insofar as they are produced by certain cultural constructs.