Moral communication is not inherently dysfunctional under Luhmann’s systems theory but needs semantic forms that take account of the emergent properties of economic and other social systems, and moral problems can be resolved through greater system sensitivity to their environment.
Evidence
Emergence: A Systems Theory’s Challenge to Ethics (RePEc / Systemic Practice and Action Research)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Stevens embodies Giddens’s faceless commitments, but Luhmann shows system trust enables ethical abdication; Luhmann rejected critical sociology because it smuggles morality into theory; Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it
#corroborates(0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347 - Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction
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