Jürgen Habermas

"Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized."

"Critical Theory in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas—in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude."

"Jürgen Habermas in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"As historical and social beings we find ourselves always already in a linguistically structured lifeworld. In the forms of communication through which we reach an understanding with one another about …"

"As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social order…"

"Christianity has functioned for the normative self-understanding of modernity as more than a mere precursor or a catalyst. Egalitarian universalism, from which sprang the ideas of freedom and social s…"

"to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed."