Gramsci & Machiavelli (was Re: Ethical foundations of the left)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Aug 1 09:52:10 PDT 2001



>>We can't even make the rulers behave differently, not to mention
>>overthrow them, by urging them to read Habermas & reminding them of
>>the virtue of the ISS.
>
>The ISS is not a virtue. You have misunderstood, rather fatally I might add.

That depends on how you define virtue. It appears that cognitive consensus between Habermasians & non-Habermasians on key terms in discussion will be impossible, constituting an outcome unwelcome in Habermas's theory.

Yoshie



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