Habermas holds the right always trumps the good in normative conflicts

Evidence

For him this is also bound up with the related theses, first, that from a normative point of view the right always trumps the good if they come into conflict and, second, the view that in the pluralistic milieus of modern societies philosophy has no role to play in offering substantive guidance concerning which lives are the good ones. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of Habermas’s right-versus-good doctrine that anchors this whole chapter’s setup.
• XREF: The right-trumps-good priority debate connects to Sandel and the communitarian critique of Rawls/Habermas, and to the liberalism-vs-communitarianism literature.