Karl‐otto Apel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl‐otto Apel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl‐otto |
| FAMILY NAME | Apel |
| SIGNATURE | APEL K O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Globalisation and the Need for Universal Ethics
This chapter presents the foundation as well as the implementation of a conception of global and universally valid ethics. There was a need for a planetary macro-ethics in the age of science to be distinguished from the traditional or conventional forms of ethics, namely micro-and meso-ethics. The chapter provides the situation of philosophical ethics has changed in so far as the need for global or universal ethics from 1970. It describes about t…
Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason
This paper deals with the foundational "architectonics" (Kantian) at the ground of the internal relation between the three concepts raised in the title. First, I provide a short introduction into the ultimate foundation of practical philosophy by the transcendental-pragmatic conception of discourse ethics. Then, I discuss the foundational relation between discourse ethics, positive law, and democracy as a constitutional state of law. Finally, I e…
Kant, Hegel, and the Contemporary Question Concerning the Normative Foundations of Morality and Right
The challenging question that I want to address in the following is: “Kant or Hegel?” Of course, one might well respond in the spirit of contestation and ask: “Must it be a choice between Kant and Hegel? Do we not rather require a third option today?”
On the Relationship between Ethics, International Law and Politico-Military Strategy in Our Time: A Philosophical Retrospective on the Kosovo Conflict
In reconstructing and commenting upon the Kosovo conflict, the cognitive interest of practical philosophy does not evade a political judgment but is primarily led by the interest in answering the question of what normative yardsticks are available (to politicians and to the public) for coping with a situation where the international order of law fails to provide a legal solution to the problem of preserving peace and, at the same time, protecting…
Globalization and the Need for Universal Ethics
In this article the author tries to give an answer - from the point of view of the transcendental pragmatic foundation of discourse ethics - to the title question, which was raised by the Unesco conferences entitled 'Universal Ethics' in Paris (27 March 1997) and Naples (December 1997). The article should be understood as a supplement to the empiristic-comparative responses of S. Bok and H. Küng, and especially to the communitarian approach of M.…
Plurality of the Good? The Problem of Affirmative Tolerance in a Multicultural Society from an Ethical Point of View
Starting from the problem of tolerance in a multicultural society, the author undermines the limits of a classical‐liberal foundation (negative tolerance) and suggests the need for a new meaning: a positive concern of tolerance implying appreciation of a variety of social cultures and value traditions. On an ethical level, positive tolerance can be grounded in the Discourse Theory, developing the classical Kantian deontological ethics in a transc…
La ética del discurso ante el desafío de la filosofía latinoamericana de la liberación
El autor continúa aquí una polémica con Enrique Dussel ya iniciada en trabajos anteriores. A pesar de las diferencias en los puntos de partida y en bastantes de sus planteamientos, se constata la posibilidad de una complementariedad mutua entre la ética de la liberación propugnada por Enrique Dussel y la ética del discurso desarrollada por Karl-Otto Arel
The Rationality of Human Communication: On the Relationship between Consensual, Strategic, and Systems Rationality
L'A. souleve la question de la rationalite de la communication humaine dans le cadre du tournant pragmatique de la philosophie analytique. Il s'agit de concilier la theorie intentionnelle de la signification developpee par P. Grice avec la theorie de la rationalite de l'action developpee par J. Habermas
Discourse Ethics as a Response to the Novel Challenges of Today's Reality to Coresponsibility
Illokutionäre Bedeutung und normative Gültigkeit: Die transzendentalpragmatische Begründung der uneingeschränkten kommunikativen Verständigung
The problem of a macroethic of responsibility to the future in the crisis of technological civilization: An attempt to come to terms with hans Jonas's ?Principle of Responsibility
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation" KARL-OTTO APEL 1. EXPOSITION OF THE THESIS MAX WEBER, THE FOUNDER of "interpretive sociology" (verstehende Soziologie), was influenced by Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians when he framed the question of "interpretive explanations" (verstehendeErkli~rungen).It was in this context that he wrote: "That an interpretation possesses a particularly high de…
Social Science as Critical Hermeneutics: A Radicalized Concept of the Public Language Game
The Erklären-Verstehen controversy in the philosophy of the natural and human sciences
Charles S. Peirce: From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism
As the title suggests, ApePs study traces the development of Peirce's thought through the sixty years of his prolific philosophical career. This study is a must for all serious students of American philosophy in general and for Peirce scholars in particular. It is intelligent and sensitive. It succeeds in situating Peirce's work among the thinkers of his own time and points out in great clarity its relevance for the intellectual challeges of our …
Normative Ethics and Strategical Rationality: The Philosophical Problem of a Political Ethics
Karl-Otto Apel — three dimensions of understanding meaning in analytic philosophy: Linguistic conventions, intentions, and reference to things
Hermeneutic Philosophy of Understanding as a Heuristic Horizon for Displaying the Problem-Dimension of Analytic Philosophy of Meaning
Theories of Meaning in the Analytic and Continental Traditions
Transformation der Philosophie. Volume I: Sprachanalytik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik. Volume II: Das Apriori der Kommunikations-gemeinschaft
"El problema de la fundamentación última filosófica a la luz de una pragmática trascendental del lenguaje (Ensayo de una metacrítica del "racionalismo crítico)
En esta época de la publicación de Diánoia no se incluían resúmenes
Communication and the Foundations of the Humanities
This paper tries to give an answer to the question why the Neopositivist Logic of Science has not been able to cope with the peculiar interests and problems of the Iiumanities (i.e. Philologies, History and critical humanistic Social Science), to speak more precisely: why Neopositivists conceive of understanding only as an heuristic auxiliary function in the service of covering law explanation and thus cannot account of Hermeneutics, that is the …
Sprache als Thema und Medium der Transzendentalen Reflexion: Zur Gegenwartssituation der Sprachphilosophie
Communication and the Foundations of the Humanities
This paper tries to give an answer to the question why the Neopositivist Logic of Science has not been able to cope with the peculiar interests and problems of the Iiumanities (i.e. Philologies, History and critical humanistic Social Science), to speak more precisely: why Neopositivists conceive of understanding only as an heuristic auxiliary function in the service of covering law explanation and thus cannot account of Hermeneutics, that is the …
Globalization and the Need for Universal Ethics
In this article the author tries to give an answer - from the point of view of the transcendental pragmatic foundation of discourse ethics - to the title question, which was raised by the Unesco conferences entitled 'Universal Ethics' in Paris (27 March 1997) and Naples (December 1997). The article should be understood as a supplement to the empiristic-comparative responses of S. Bok and H. Küng, and especially to the communitarian approach of M.…
On the Relationship between Ethics, International Law and Politico-Military Strategy in Our Time: A Philosophical Retrospective on the Kosovo Conflict
In reconstructing and commenting upon the Kosovo conflict, the cognitive interest of practical philosophy does not evade a political judgment but is primarily led by the interest in answering the question of what normative yardsticks are available (to politicians and to the public) for coping with a situation where the international order of law fails to provide a legal solution to the problem of preserving peace and, at the same time, protecting…
The problem of a macroethic of responsibility to the future in the crisis of technological civilization: An attempt to come to terms with hans Jonas's ?Principle of Responsibility
Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason
This paper deals with the foundational "architectonics" (Kantian) at the ground of the internal relation between the three concepts raised in the title. First, I provide a short introduction into the ultimate foundation of practical philosophy by the transcendental-pragmatic conception of discourse ethics. Then, I discuss the foundational relation between discourse ethics, positive law, and democracy as a constitutional state of law. Finally, I e…
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation" KARL-OTTO APEL 1. EXPOSITION OF THE THESIS MAX WEBER, THE FOUNDER of "interpretive sociology" (verstehende Soziologie), was influenced by Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians when he framed the question of "interpretive explanations" (verstehendeErkli~rungen).It was in this context that he wrote: "That an interpretation possesses a particularly high de…
Sprache als Thema und Medium der Transzendentalen Reflexion: Zur Gegenwartssituation der Sprachphilosophie
Sprache als Thema und Medium der Transzendentalen Reflexion: Zur Gegenwartssituation der Sprachphilosophie
Communication and the Foundations of the Humanities
This paper tries to give an answer to the question why the Neopositivist Logic of Science has not been able to cope with the peculiar interests and problems of the Iiumanities (i.e. Philologies, History and critical humanistic Social Science), to speak more precisely: why Neopositivists conceive of understanding only as an heuristic auxiliary function in the service of covering law explanation and thus cannot account of Hermeneutics, that is the …
Transformation der Philosophie. Volume I: Sprachanalytik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik. Volume II: Das Apriori der Kommunikations-gemeinschaft
"El problema de la fundamentación última filosófica a la luz de una pragmática trascendental del lenguaje (Ensayo de una metacrítica del "racionalismo crítico)
En esta época de la publicación de Diánoia no se incluían resúmenes
Theories of Meaning in the Analytic and Continental Traditions
Karl-Otto Apel — three dimensions of understanding meaning in analytic philosophy: Linguistic conventions, intentions, and reference to things
Hermeneutic Philosophy of Understanding as a Heuristic Horizon for Displaying the Problem-Dimension of Analytic Philosophy of Meaning
The Erklären-Verstehen controversy in the philosophy of the natural and human sciences
Charles S. Peirce: From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism
As the title suggests, ApePs study traces the development of Peirce's thought through the sixty years of his prolific philosophical career. This study is a must for all serious students of American philosophy in general and for Peirce scholars in particular. It is intelligent and sensitive. It succeeds in situating Peirce's work among the thinkers of his own time and points out in great clarity its relevance for the intellectual challeges of our …
Normative Ethics and Strategical Rationality: The Philosophical Problem of a Political Ethics
Social Science as Critical Hermeneutics: A Radicalized Concept of the Public Language Game
The problem of a macroethic of responsibility to the future in the crisis of technological civilization: An attempt to come to terms with hans Jonas's ?Principle of Responsibility
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation" KARL-OTTO APEL 1. EXPOSITION OF THE THESIS MAX WEBER, THE FOUNDER of "interpretive sociology" (verstehende Soziologie), was influenced by Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians when he framed the question of "interpretive explanations" (verstehendeErkli~rungen).It was in this context that he wrote: "That an interpretation possesses a particularly high de…
Illokutionäre Bedeutung und normative Gültigkeit: Die transzendentalpragmatische Begründung der uneingeschränkten kommunikativen Verständigung
Discourse Ethics as a Response to the Novel Challenges of Today's Reality to Coresponsibility
La ética del discurso ante el desafío de la filosofía latinoamericana de la liberación
El autor continúa aquí una polémica con Enrique Dussel ya iniciada en trabajos anteriores. A pesar de las diferencias en los puntos de partida y en bastantes de sus planteamientos, se constata la posibilidad de una complementariedad mutua entre la ética de la liberación propugnada por Enrique Dussel y la ética del discurso desarrollada por Karl-Otto Arel
The Rationality of Human Communication: On the Relationship between Consensual, Strategic, and Systems Rationality
L'A. souleve la question de la rationalite de la communication humaine dans le cadre du tournant pragmatique de la philosophie analytique. Il s'agit de concilier la theorie intentionnelle de la signification developpee par P. Grice avec la theorie de la rationalite de l'action developpee par J. Habermas
Plurality of the Good? The Problem of Affirmative Tolerance in a Multicultural Society from an Ethical Point of View
Starting from the problem of tolerance in a multicultural society, the author undermines the limits of a classical‐liberal foundation (negative tolerance) and suggests the need for a new meaning: a positive concern of tolerance implying appreciation of a variety of social cultures and value traditions. On an ethical level, positive tolerance can be grounded in the Discourse Theory, developing the classical Kantian deontological ethics in a transc…
Globalization and the Need for Universal Ethics
In this article the author tries to give an answer - from the point of view of the transcendental pragmatic foundation of discourse ethics - to the title question, which was raised by the Unesco conferences entitled 'Universal Ethics' in Paris (27 March 1997) and Naples (December 1997). The article should be understood as a supplement to the empiristic-comparative responses of S. Bok and H. Küng, and especially to the communitarian approach of M.…
On the Relationship between Ethics, International Law and Politico-Military Strategy in Our Time: A Philosophical Retrospective on the Kosovo Conflict
In reconstructing and commenting upon the Kosovo conflict, the cognitive interest of practical philosophy does not evade a political judgment but is primarily led by the interest in answering the question of what normative yardsticks are available (to politicians and to the public) for coping with a situation where the international order of law fails to provide a legal solution to the problem of preserving peace and, at the same time, protecting…
Kant, Hegel, and the Contemporary Question Concerning the Normative Foundations of Morality and Right
The challenging question that I want to address in the following is: “Kant or Hegel?” Of course, one might well respond in the spirit of contestation and ask: “Must it be a choice between Kant and Hegel? Do we not rather require a third option today?”
Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason
This paper deals with the foundational "architectonics" (Kantian) at the ground of the internal relation between the three concepts raised in the title. First, I provide a short introduction into the ultimate foundation of practical philosophy by the transcendental-pragmatic conception of discourse ethics. Then, I discuss the foundational relation between discourse ethics, positive law, and democracy as a constitutional state of law. Finally, I e…
Globalisation and the Need for Universal Ethics
This chapter presents the foundation as well as the implementation of a conception of global and universally valid ethics. There was a need for a planetary macro-ethics in the age of science to be distinguished from the traditional or conventional forms of ethics, namely micro-and meso-ethics. The chapter provides the situation of philosophical ethics has changed in so far as the need for global or universal ethics from 1970. It describes about t…
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