Everyday language inherently aims at agreement and comprehensive rationality.

Evidence

What Habermas meant by the natural hermeneutics of everyday language was that everyday language is a medium that makes self-reflection possible: everyday utterances can, when necessary, be explained using everyday language. As speaking subjects, Habermas claimed, we always find ourselves in a communication which is intended to lead to agreement', and thus to comprehensive rationality’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 603

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines Habermas’s ‘natural hermeneutics of everyday language’ as everyday speech’s capacity to explain itself and strive toward consensus.
  • XREF: Connects directly to the kept claim that everyday language itself contains a utopian comprehensive rationality from the Frankfurt School material.