RALW’S Theory of Justice vs. Habermas’s Discourse Ethics
Discourse Ethics
Habermas is considered one of the originators of modern discourse ethics. What is Discourse Ethics by the way? Discourse Ethics often referred to, as argumentation ethics is a normative framework that is suitable for employment when deliberating on the moral troubles that emerge in a pluralistic environment. This theory recognizes that within any environment populated with individuals conflicting moral values will exist, and may potentially clash, this framework enables individuals involved to develop a moral theory that will satisfy the needs of everyone involved. Discourse ethics does not prescribe what is ethical, rather it offers a procedure for developing ethical …show more content…
Habermas took a unique interest in language, specifically as a medium for coordinating action or as a device to reach understanding between individuals. This particular framework is Habermas’s attempt to explain the constructive results that can be achieved through communicative rationality among a group of rational …show more content…
This original position is not, of course, thought of as an actual historical state of affairs, much less as a primitive condition of culture. It is understood as a purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice. Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does anyone know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. This ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social circumstances. Since all are similarly situated and no one is able to design principles to favor his particular condition, the principles of justice are the result of a fair agreement or bargain. “Justice as fairness”: it conveys the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is fair. The name does not mean that the concepts of justice and fairness are the same, any more than the phrase “poetry as metaphor” means that the concepts of poetry and metaphor are the
Discourse Ethics
Habermas is considered one of the originators of modern discourse ethics. What is Discourse Ethics by the way? Discourse Ethics often referred to, as argumentation ethics is a normative framework that is suitable for employment when deliberating on the moral troubles that emerge in a pluralistic environment. This theory recognizes that within any environment populated with individuals conflicting moral values will exist, and may potentially clash, this framework enables individuals involved to develop a moral theory that will satisfy the needs of everyone involved. Discourse ethics does not prescribe what is ethical, rather it offers a procedure for developing ethical …show more content…
Habermas took a unique interest in language, specifically as a medium for coordinating action or as a device to reach understanding between individuals. This particular framework is Habermas’s attempt to explain the constructive results that can be achieved through communicative rationality among a group of rational …show more content…
This original position is not, of course, thought of as an actual historical state of affairs, much less as a primitive condition of culture. It is understood as a purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice. Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does anyone know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. This ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social circumstances. Since all are similarly situated and no one is able to design principles to favor his particular condition, the principles of justice are the result of a fair agreement or bargain. “Justice as fairness”: it conveys the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is fair. The name does not mean that the concepts of justice and fairness are the same, any more than the phrase “poetry as metaphor” means that the concepts of poetry and metaphor are the