“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.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject..."
― Jurgen Habermas |
“The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases.."
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated.."
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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.."Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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"..Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense...”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act”
― Jurgen Habermas
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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.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“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.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge.."
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.."
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“One never really knows who one's enemy is.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“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..."
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.”
― Jurgen Habermas |
“Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction”
― Jurgen Habermas
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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.."
― Jurgen Habermas
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“The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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“After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.”
― Jurgen Habermas
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