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“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
 
 
“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
 
 
“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
.."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
 
 
"..Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
“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
 
 
“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
 
 
“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
 
 
“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge.."
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
“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
 
 
“Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
“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
 
 
“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
 
 
“I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
“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
 
 
“The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
 
“After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.”
― Jurgen Habermas
 
Jurgen Habermas
Jurgen Habermas
Jurgen Habermas
Jurgen Habermas
Nationality:German
Born: 18 June 1929 
Gummersbach, Rhine Province,Prussia,
Germany
Famous As:
Philosopher
and Sociologist