L’éthique de la discussion - Karl-Otto APEL - entre raison et histoire

I. UN PHILOSOPHE FACE AUX DÉFIS DE L’HISTOIRE                       
II. TRANSFORMER LA PHILOSOPHIE POUR FONDER EN RAISON L’ÉTHIQUE DE LA DISCUSSION       
III. L’APPLICATION À L’HISTOIRE DE L’ÉTHIQUE DE LA DISCUSSION      

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I. A PHILOSOPHER IN THE FACE OF THE CHALLENGES OF HISTORY
II. TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY TO ESTABLISH THE ETHICS OF DISCUSSION AS A BASIS
III. THE APPLICATION TO THE HISTORY OF THE ETHICS OF DISCUSSION   

Born in 1922, Karl-Otto Apel was directly confronted with the "national disaster of the Hitler era", experiencing the "destruction of his moral conscience". The ethics of the discussion that he will then gradually develop will aim to provide a non-relativist response to the many moral challenges facing the human species in its history. By reflecting on the normative assumptions of any argument, Apel intends to show how reason is able to meet the challenge of the moral orientation necessary for humanity, without forgetting to examine its practical application in historical existence, both collective and personal.

This text is the result of a PhD thesis defended in Nantes on 24 June 2010 and which earned the author the following judgment from K.-O. Apel: "I feel, here, perfectly understood and better interpreted than I would have known how to do it myself to date", Letter dated 4 October 2012.