Coercive measures that serve only particular elite interests (e.g., South African apartheid regime) lack rational warrant because they cannot be justified by reference to universal human good and should be eliminated.
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“insofar as this apparatus of government imposes coercion and bloody and miserable coercion it is on people it has no rational warrant and simply to expose this to the light of rational scrutiny undermines it”
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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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