Jurgen Habermas

The project of Enlightenment is not to be abandoned, but to be completed.

The moral point of view is inherent in the structure of communicative action.

The European project is a risky experiment, but a necessary one.

The colonization of the lifeworld by system imperatives could be described as a communicative pathology.

Postmodernism is essentially a self-consuming artifact.

The utopian content of modernity has been exhausted.

We cannot choose whether we want to communicate or not; we are always already communicating.

The public sphere is an arena for rational-critical debate.

Communicative action is aimed at reaching understanding.

Science and technology are not value-neutral; they are always already embedded in lifeworld contexts.

The colonization of the lifeworld by the system is a threat to modern society.

Discourse ethics is a universalistic ethic based on communicative reason.

The public sphere has been re-feudalized.

Truth is a regulative idea, not a property of propositions.

Legitimation crisis is a crisis of meaning and identity in modern societies.

Post-metaphysical thinking requires a move from the philosophy of consciousness to the philosophy of language.

The public use of reason is essential for democracy.

The system colonizes the lifeworld by monetary and bureaucratic imperatives.

Deliberative democracy is based on the idea of public deliberation and consensus formation.

Religion can play a positive role in the public sphere by providing moral resources.