Juergen Habermas died, author of the concept of “determining the truth”

pch24.pl 2 weeks ago

W Germany is undergoing media mourning after Juergen Habermas, a prominent neo-markist, typical of the Frankfurt School, who died on Saturday. national Chancellor Friedrich Merz, stating that his voice would be missing, compared the "analytical insight" of the ideologist to the "lighthouse among the rough sea". However, the left-wing thinker himself, according to witnesses, at the end of his life "had moments of despair" and "the impression that everything he fought for was falling apart." He co-authored the concept of “deliberal democracy” and “determination of truth” in isolation from reality.

Farewelling Habermas, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier wrote about the failure of "a large typical of Enlightenment, analyzing the contradictions of modernity". "He taught us the ethos of democratic discourse and justified the emancipation of man as a goal that cannot be abandoned," he said.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in his statement, said that "Germany and Europe have lost 1 of the most prominent thinkers of our time." As he argued, Habermas "with foresight and historical seriousness accompanied the improvement of political and social events", and his "analytical insight shaped a democratic debate far beyond the borders of our country and acted like a lighthouse among the rough seas."

In assessing that Habermas's voice would be “missing”, the head of the government in Berlin noted that the work of the philosopher had shaped generations of thinkers. "For our state community, Habermas' intellectual insight and openness were irreplaceable, his word was both a mention point and a challenge," said Merz.

The paper “Der Spiegel” recalled that Habermas was “the most influential German thinker after the Second planet War” and “to the very end he was passionate about all debate.”

The magazine notes that the philosopher, known, among others, for his participation in the quarrel of historians (Historikerstreit), in the last years of his life, he has become “single”. His daughter died 2 years ago, and in June of that year his wife Ute, with whom he had been married since 1955. “For any time he had moments of despair, said people who had been in contact with him. He felt that everything he fought for was falling apart," writes “Der Spiegel”, who admits that he has been unsuccessfully seeking an interview recently.

The philosopher, sociologist and publicist Juergen Habermas died on Saturday at the age of 96 in Bavarian Starnberg. He was 1 of the most celebrated typical of critical theory. His views were based on the concept of ‘deliberal democracy’, which implies an enquiry to citizens on various disputed issues into consensus, but after excluding certain ‘unacceptable’ opinions, forms of argumentation or ‘cultural styles’.

Agnieszka Stelmach pointed out in our pages, in mention to the description written by Prof. Jan Nowak: “(...) Deliberative democracy is not about investigating the fact due to the fact that The fact is not a virtuebecause only narrows the spectrum of possibilities. crucial Consensuswhich arises from dialogue. Habermas, influential typical Critical theory explains that there are no actual claims (at most there can be agreement on certain issues and everything, including morality, is subject to consensus). Certain topics cannot be addressed on public square, due to the fact that they are irrational, and in discussion you cannot appeal to spiritual arguments.”

In turn prof. Gabriel Łasiński said in an interview with PCh24.pl:

‘(...) Jürgen Habermas, 1 of the younger representatives of the Frankfurt School, (...) introduced the concept of discourse as a tool for agreeing and determining the truth. According to him, fact does not mention to reality, to facts, but to what a certain influential group of people will agree by consensus as truth. I mean: We will find that something is actual and agree that it will apply as the only being called truth.

So we are dealing with a full relativization of everything, rejecting the criterion of objectivity. In this way, social sciences have acquired the concept of truth, based on exclusive ideological aspects. They deviate from empirical facts resulting from the reality being studied. Empire no longer matters to them. Today, a geneticist, a biologist, a mathematician cannot talk of gender. For this, a typical of social sciences, an ideologist who cites the result of the discourse: We're the ones who determined how much sex there is; we're the ones who determined what's normal, acceptable, harmful. Biological, physical, social reality doesn't interest us, it doesn't matter., preach these people.”