Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue
Evidence
Habermas took Popper’s idea that scientific objectivity was grounded in critical, rational discussion, and contrasted it with the necessity for a `comprehensive rationality’ of free dialogue between communicating persons, which would be the condition of possibility for such an idea to be realized if the model of the advancement of knowledge in the natural sciences were abandoned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2416
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces Habermas’s concept of ‘comprehensive rationality’ of free dialogue as the condition of possibility for Popper’s idea of critical rational discussion.
- XREF: connects to: Habermas radicalized Popper’s critical rationalism via American pragmatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417; Popper equated natural-science method with scientific rationality itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2410; Habermas critiqued Popper immanently by contrasting the bourgeois public sphere with free dialogue conditions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication.
#corroborates(0.92) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 356 - Habermas grounded critical theory in communication theory rather than the anthropology of knowledge.
#corroborates(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2693 - Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism.
#qualifies(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2417 - Everyday language inherently enables self-reflection and consensus-seeking toward comprehensive rationality
#exemplifies(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2430