Re: OT: hello Dalai (pluralism, democracy, social justice) / RE: RE: general doubt

Another web site about Habermas' social theory:

  http://home.flash.net/~oudies/habermas.htm

excerpt:

    "I have a conceptual motive and a fundamental intuition... The

     motivating thought concerns the reconciliation of a modernity
     which has fallen apart, the idea that without surrendering the
     differentiation that modernity has made possible in the
     cultural, the social and economic spheres, one can find forms of
     living together in which autonomy and dependency can truly enter
     into a non-antagonistic relation, that one can walk tall in a
     collectivity that does not have the dubious quality of 
     backward-looking substantial forms of community. The intuition
     springs from the sphere of relations with others; it aims at
     experiences of undisturbed intersubjectivity. These are more
     fragile than anything that history has up till now brought forth
     in the way of structures of communication - an ever more dense
     and finely woven web of intersubjective relations that
     nevertheless make possible a relation between freedom and
     dependency that can only be imaged with interactive models.
     Whenever these ideas appear, whether in Adorno, when he quotes
     Eichendorff, in Schelling's Weltatler, in the young Hegel, or in
     Jakob B=F6hme, they are always ideas of felicitous interaction, of
     reciprocity and distance, of separation and of successful,
     unspoiled nearness, of vulnerability and complementary caution.
     All of these images of protection, openness and compassion, of
     submission and resistance, rise out of a horizon of experience,
     of what Brecht would have termed 'friendly living together.'
     This kind of friendliness does not exclude conflict, rather it
     implies those human forms through which one can survive
     conflicts. "
       J=FCrgen Habermas

and "social responsibility" issues in computing:

  http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk Received on Thu Jan 04 2001 - 16:36:26 CST