Constitutional state and democracy: On Jürgen Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms

Konstantinos Kavoulakos ~ RP 096 (Jul/Aug 1999) ~ Article

In his Between Facts and Norms, [1] Jürgen Habermas offers a justiﬁcation of the ʻdemocratic constitutional stateʼ from the viewpoint of his communicative or discourse theory, and gives a thorough exposition of his conception of democratic politics. In what follows I will attempt to give a general outline of Habermasʼs political philosophy and to suggest […]

Ruptured formalism: The challenge of bioethics and the limits of moral formalism

Konstantinos Kavoulakos ~ RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) ~ Article

Ruptured formalism The challenge of bioethics and the limits of moral formalism Konstantinos kavoulakos When one of the most famous living philosophers takes a stand on certain moral dilemmas that arise from the current boom in developments in the biosciences, it is natural that it should provoke great interest – all the more so as […]