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II 43
Principles/validity/RortyVsHabermas: the question of the "inner validity" of the principles will not arise. Especially not whether it is "universally valid". The only thing that prevents a society from taking the institutionalized humiliation of the weak for granted is a detailed description of these humiliations.
Such descriptions are given by journalists, anthropologists, sociologists, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers and painters.
>Cf. >Validity/Habermas, >Validity claims/Habermas, >Society/Habermas, >Inequalities/Habermas.
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VI 120
Principle/rationality/background/Searle/Rorty: (with Wittgenstein): for the Western rationalist tradition there are principles that do not function as a theory (Rorty pro). Rather, they function as a background.
>Backgrund/Searle, >Background/Habermas, >Rationality.

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