Habermas's framework, rooted in the continental rationalist tradition, is unlikely to emerge from Anglo-American philosophy because it presupposes that being human is fundamentally identical with being rational, enabling universal moral rules independent of religious myth or moral skepticism.
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“this is the sort of position and this is the sort of set of aspirations that could only be characteristic of someone who thought that the the marrow of human being what it means to be human is the same thing as what it means to be rational”
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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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