MYTH IN JÜRGEN HABERMAS’S THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION

The Position of Myth in Frazer’s Anthropological Theory

George James Frazer (1854-1941), the spiritual father of myth-ritual school, was bred up in the British tradition of empiricism. Believing in the evolutionary process of culture, Frazer mainly focused his attention on explaining such epistemic forms of thought as magic, religion and science. Accordingly, while interpreting the processes through which magic leads to religion and finally evolves ...

Communicative versus Strategic Rationality: Habermas Theory of Communicative Action and the Social Brain

In the philosophical theory of communicative action, rationality refers to interpersonal communication rather than to a knowing subject. Thus, a social view of rationality is suggested. The theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative and the strategic or instrumental reasoning. Using experimental designs in an fMRI setting, recent studies explored simi...

Argumentation semantics of communicative action

Communication is a process aimed at agreement on some situation definition. When the agreement is not immediate, a discussion is needed to resolve the points of disagreement using argumentation. Although such a discussion is recognized in the LAP approaches, no formal treatment of it has been given so far. In this paper, we introduce a formal model based on recent results from argumentation the...

Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action and the Theory of Social Capital

principles and methods of social education on habermas’s communicative action theory

the main goal of this research is examining the foundations of habermas’ communicative action and postulating principles and methods of social education based on it. to achievement this goal, method of prospective analysis has been used. carrying out content analysis on habermas’ communicative action theory we have come across eleven educational principles and thirteen educational methods which...