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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action' and 'Attack Upon Christendom'

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4 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

15677

Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

15671

Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy

16009

When we seek our own 'freedom' we are just trying to avoid responsibility [Kierkegaard]