TY - BOOK AU - Badillo, Robert Peter AU - Badillo,Robert Peter TI - The Emancipative Theory of Jurgen Habermas and Metaphysics SN - 1565180429 U1 - N08.2 PY - 1991/// CY - Washington PB - Council for Research in Values and Philosophy N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; CHAPTER I. The Objectivist/Relativist Dichotomy: Habermas`s Alternative Bernstein`s Practical Alternative Habermas`s Theoretical Alternative The Metaphysical Alternative CHAPTER II. The Theory of the Cognitive Interests: Primacy of the Emancipatory Interest Preliminary Issues The Theory of Cognitive Interests The Primacy of the Emancipatory Interest CHAPTER III. The Theory of Universal Pragmatics: The Methodological Framework Reconstruction of Consensual Speech The Discourse Theory of Truth Limits of Theoretical Discourse CHAPTER IV. The Limits of Discourse Ethics: A Minimal Model of Communicating Subjects The Nature of Discourse Ethics A Model of Communicating Subjects Limits of Practical Discourse CHAPTER V. Habermas`s Philosophy of Emancipation and Metaphysics The Christian Hermeneutical Horizon and the Sensus Plenior of Habermas`s Philosophy of Emancipation An Application of the Methodology of Metaphysics to to Habermasian Categories The Relations Between the Transcendentals, the Emancipatory Interest, and Ideal Communication ER -