C.T after DoE

[matthew piscioneri]

Hi Claus,

Apologies for earlier trite comments. I also have trouble with what I 
consider JH's anti-naturalism. However, regarding the quote: Habermas 
himself "disowns" the 1965 comments re language lifting humankind out of 
nature.

Surely his comment has to be understood against H. & A's pessimism in _DoE_, 
for example, concerning nature and self preservation. As JH brings to 
fruition in _TCA_ his thesis is directed towards mollifying his mentor's 
totalizing critique of reason as essentially self-preservationist looking to 
communicative language practice as indicating another non-primarily self 
preservationist type of reason.

Having said this, JH on nature, as it were, remains problematic for critics 
of him.

Regards,

MattP.




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