Procedures always embed substantial ethical commitments, never pure neutrality

Evidence

Rules for Wingenstein are always abridgements of practices, they are inseparable from specific forms of life. This indicates that a strict separation between ‘procedural’ and ‘substantial’ or between ‘moral’ and ‘ethical’, separations which are central to the Hahermasian approach, cannot be maintained. Procedures always involve substantial ethical commitments. and there can never be such a thing as purely neutral procedures. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 440

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Limits on political confrontation are political choices, not moral or rational requirements — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 428; Procedural ethics cannot justify principles without empirical accounts of persons — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 426

Broader Connections

• Procedural ethics cannot justify principles without empirical accounts of persons #corroborates (0.82) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 426