political legitimacy is one of the basic and major concepts of political science especially      political thought. different views of the meaning and the concept of political legitimacy go back to the roots of political legitimacy. in this article by using a comparative style, the author will attempt to      compare the concept of political legitimacy in imam khomeini and jurgen habermas'...

The most provocative and crucial argument of Habermas' Theory Communicative Action is the claim that parties participating in communicative action can reach an understanding agreement any case if they aim to agreement, not dominate/oppress or manipulate each other. This claim, which at core his social theory as a whole, requires analysis conditions for reaching action. In this regard, Habermas ...

Different ways, by which we come to know something, are usefully applied to the pedagogy of medical education. Jürgen Habermas described three “ways” of knowing. These are empirical-analytic knowing (data collection), historical-hermeneutic knowing (understanding of meanings), and self-reflective critical knowing. These “ways” of knowing have an epistemological basis, which is able to be traced...

Public Sphere The third kind of public sphere, named by Habermas as the “abstract public sphere”, is produced by media, which connects singular and globally spread readers, listeners and spectators (BFN, 1996: 308). In the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Habermas conceives the small press as an important institution for the conveyance of ideas and the establishment of the rationa...

Habermas, Historian - Jürgen Habermas: Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, vol. 1, Die okzidentale Konstellation von Glauben und Wissen, and 2, Vernünftige Freiheit: Spuren des Diskurses über Wissen. (Suhrkamp Verlag: Berlin, 2019. Pp. 1752.) Volume 84 Issue 2

This paper examines the concept of constituent power and constitutional form in Jürgen Habermas’ legal philosophy. It argues that a concept of constituent power needs to be embedded in a constitutional theory that can explain the difference between legitimate law and a mere wielding of power. Theories operating with assumptions of a pre-legal and unbound constituent power are either pre-modern ...