Each Murder Is One Too Many.

I Shall Develop The Thesis That Anyone Acting Communicatively Must, In Performing Any Speech Act, Raise Universal Validity Claims And Suppose That They Can Be Vindicated.

The Only Knowledge That Can Truly Orient Action Is Knowledge That Frees Itself From Mere Human Interests And Is Based In Ideas - In Other Words Knowledge That Has Taken A Theoretical Attitude.

Today's Islamic Fundamentalism Is Also A Cover For Political Motifs. We Should Not Overlook The Political Motifs We Encounter In Forms Of Religious Fanaticism

Technically Speaking, Since Our Complex Societies Are Highly Susceptible To Interferences And Accidents,they Certainly Offer Ideal Opportunities For A Prompt Disruption Of Normal Activities. These Disruptions Can, With Minimum Expense, Have Considerably Destructive Consequences. Global Terrorism Is Extreme Both In Its Lack Of Realistic Goals And In Its Cynical Exploitation Of The Vulnerability Of Complex Systems.

The Bourgeois Public Sphere May Be Conceived Above All As The Sphere Of Private People Come Together As A Public; They Soon Claimed The Public Sphere Regulated From Above Against The Public Authorities Themselves, To Engage Them In A Debate Over The General Rules Governing Relations In The Basically Privatized But Publicly Relevant Sphere Of Commodity Exchange And Social Labor.