Jürgen Habermas

"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 …"

"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."

"All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to tho…"

"Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great phil…"

"The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another."

"If we compare the third-person attitude of someone who simply says how things stand with the performative attitude of someone who tries to understand what is said to him , the implications … become cl…"

"Critical Theory in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"Jürgen Habermas in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"