Habermas's framework enables legitimate moral discourse without metaphysical appeal and recovers the possibility of serious intellectual criticism of social institutions, making moral philosophy a respectable discipline again.
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“what he wants to do is to make moral discourse legitimate again as a topic of serious intellectual activity rather than to succumb to the lure of the priests and the poets”
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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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