Contemporary Industrial Society and Communicative Action

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

ive achievement has a double effect: under a strict deontological point of view, moral questions are taken out of their contexts in such a way that mora] solutions retain only the rationally motivating force of insights. 179 Moral Consciousness Communicative Action Moral issues are never raised for their own sake; people raise them seeking a guide for action. For this reason the demotivated sol...

Collective Goals and Communicative Action

Put in a nutshell, the following view of the nature of communicative action seems worth considering. Communication presupposes a framework of mutual knowledge (at least mutual true beliefs) and assumptions about language (or whatever representational system is used). This underlying level need not contain any knowledge or assumptions about the goals of the users of language, in particular no as...

Contemporary – Learning – Society

Perspectives on Contemporary Society

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...

Speech Acts or Communicative Action?

Systems for supporting communication in organizations should be founded on a theorY of language and communication. A well-known theorY for this purpose is speech act theorY. developed by Austin and Searle. Flores e.a. used this theorY for the design of TH E COORDINATOR. Speech act theorY however has some serious shortcomings which are brought to the fore by Habermas. His examination of Searle's...