Freedom does not mean absence of coaction, which on the other hand is impossible for the limited human being (evidently through the elemental economic and material conditions). Freedom is referred to the responsibility that makes of autonomy a critizable authority. Therefore, justification is included in freedom and is born of the committed rationality of human being (who iconoclastically is able to eclypse manipulations and servility-)– In this sense, the democracy and utopia of freedom are mutually grounded if one does not understand utopia as an ideology or dogma to be applied over the person or the society. The opposition determinism-freedom should be overcome, hence, through a pragmatic attitude allowing freedom for individual and social creativity.
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Luisa Aurora Viviana Rodal. Being Free
Being Free
Prologue
Introduction
Justification
1 - Religious Justification
2 - Justification and the Law
3 - Justification and Knowledge
4 - Manipulation, Iconoclasm, Utopia (Conclusion
Synopsis
Notes
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LUISA AURORA VIVIANA
Introduction
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According to Habermas, “only responsible persons can behave rationally”5. Only responsibility permits a rational autonomous conduct. For this, it is necessary that the actions be oriented intersubjectively recognizing critical pretensions of validity6. This is so because the possibility of the inter-subjective recognition of critizable and critical claims about the validity of rational statements is constitutive of our rationality (“the possibility of intersubjetive recognition of critizable validity claims is constitutive for their rationality”7). This is evident in the justificative force of cultural values,}}.
Because of what has been said, Habermas states that the rationality inherent in the communicative practice tends to an ideal accord through agreements based in justified reasons8. The argumentation is, then, a court of appeal, a critical judgement that corresponds itself with the critical task9. This justification task improves the arguments10 through the cooperative search of truth11.
