Kant said Hume's moral skepticism aroused him from dogmatic slumbers and motivated him to create universal moral principles; Habermas's universal pragmatics is analogous, updated for the modern world—not ontologically splitting physics and metaphysics but distinguishing the material world from the human world.
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“what how Tomas wants to do is in some way respects like that perhaps we could say that he's going to be the Einstein of the moral world but he's going to do this by not completely copying the content more he is not going to ontologically split the world into physics and metaphysics”
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 - Habermas' Critical Theory— Michael SugrueCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:16:47 PM
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