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Habermas's critique of Nietzsche's critique of reason

Bernhard Taureck

pp. 289-294

Greek philosophy presupposed that the world itself is reasonable (they called it ho lógos) and that men are able to represent the reason of being by their thinking (which they called ho noûs). Against this Greek concept of double reason, Immanuel Kant argued that reason is human reason. Instead of knowing a lógos of the world, the meaning of reason among men lies in the moral activity of sel-flegislative universal law.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2430-2_22

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Taureck, B. (1999)., Habermas's critique of Nietzsche's critique of reason, in B. Babich (ed.), Nietzsche, theories of knowledge, and critical theory I, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 289-294.

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