Psychology Dictionary of Arguments

Home Screenshot Tabelle Begriffe

 
Authority: Authority refers to the legitimate power or right to give commands, make decisions, or enforce obedience, often within a specific context, such as a government, institution, or expertise in a field.
_____________
Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
Author Concept Summary/Quotes Sources

Jürgen Habermas on Authority - Dictionary of Arguments

IV 118
Communicative Practice/Habermas: thesis: the social-integrative and expressive functions, which are initially fulfilled by ritual practice, are transferred to communicative action, whereby the authority of the holy is successively replaced by the authority of a consensus that is considered justified in each case.
>Holiness/Durkheim
, >Religion, >Society, >Governance.
This means a release of communicative action from sacral protected normative contexts.
>Communicative action/Habermas, >Communication theory/Habermas,
>Communication/Habermas, >Communicative practice/Habermas,
>Communicative rationality/Habermas.
IV 119
The disenchantment and empowerment of the sacred realm is carried out by way of a linguization of the ritually secured normative basic understanding.
>Disenchantment.

_____________
Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


Send Link
> Counter arguments against Habermas
> Counter arguments in relation to Authority

Authors A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Z  


Concepts A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z