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- Title
Commanded Love and Moral Autonomy: The Kierkegaard-Habermas Debate.
- Authors
WESTPHAL, MEROLD
- Abstract
Just because Kierkegaard's ethic of neighbor love can be read as a critique of the ideal of moral autonomy in Kant, it finds itself in critical dialogue with Habermas' dialogical transcription of that ideal. Kierkegaard's ethic of commanded love poses the following dilemma for Habermas. The linguistification of the sacred explicitly replaced the divine voice with an ideal human consensus. But by eliminating God from the conversation at the outset, Habermas appears to be dogmatically metaphysical - there is no God. If, on the other hand, God is a reality, or even a possibility, no human consensus could be the definition of truth and normativity.
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 1998, Vol 1998, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article