The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas.
The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas Jurgen Habermas is widely considered as the most influential thinker in Germany over the past decade (1970-80). As a philosopher and sociologist he has mastered and creatively articulated an extraordinary range of specialized literature in the social sciences, social theory and the history of ideas in the.Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of using faith as a basis for knowledge in religion and in one area of knowledge from the ToK diagram. Faith is a word with a lot of different definitions. It is a vague term, therefore it is essential to say what meaning we give to it. In my culture faith usually refers to what people believe in without.The focus of this lecture is the Habermas and Ratzinger debate in Munich, at the invitation of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, on January 19, 2004.2 The then Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal-theologian, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and now Emeritus Pope.
The peculiar position of Habermas is that he confronts contemporary Marxism not merely with the German-Continental theoretical tradition, but also with an intimate knowledge of Anglo-American.The product of a workshop held at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and cosponsored by the SSRC’s Program on Religion and the Public Sphere and Stony Brook University, Habermas and Religion presents a series of original and sustained engagements with Habermas’s writing on religion in the public sphere, featuring new work and critical.
Indeed, in the opening lines of “Faith and Knowledge” Habermas links the apparent resurgence of religion to a related debate that he had been having since the late 1990s on the question of genetic engineering, noting his concern with how the “self- instrumentalization” of human nature has been met with polarized response.4 This debate.
