Phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to communicative action as the normative foundation of democratic society

• Authors: Jeko, Victor Ogheneochuko , Ukagba, George Uzoma

Abstracts

EN

This paper reflected on the need to address the problem of human co-existence and the need for ensuring that political instability is simply addressed. The normative foundation of human democratic society has never been on a solid bedrock due to human frailties. This paper seeks the need to address this human impasse from a more phenomenological and hermeneutical approach by using Habermas’s communicative theory as a normative foundation for addressing this global challenges. This paper therefore adopts a method of analysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics to address the democratic vision of human normative foundation of social order. This paper therefore concluded that communicative action serves as a prelude for the normative foundation of human democratic institution. Habermas’s contemporary political philosophy vis-à-vis his communicative theory could serve as an antidote for global order or social order.

Keywords

EN

democracy; society; social order; philosophy; phenomenology; Habermas

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 29/1

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Jeko, Victor Ogheneochuko

author

Ukagba, George Uzoma

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/6664

DOI

10.15290/idea.2017.29.1.22