The Clever, Albeit Fragile, Coalition Against Terrorism

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 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.

Positivism Stands Or Falls With The Principle Of Scientism, That Is That The Meaning Of Knowledge Is Defined By What The Sciences Do And Can Thus Be Adequately Explicated Through The Methodological Analysis Of Scientific Procedures.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.

Although Objectively Greater Demands Are Placed On This Authority, It Operates Less As A Public Opinion Giving A Rational Foundation To The Exercise Of Political And Social Authority, The More It Is Generated For The Purpose Of An Abstract Vote That Amounts To No More Than An Act Of Acclamation Within A Public Sphere Temporarily Manufactured For Show Or Manipulation.