6 pages in length. Habermas's thesis of the universality of linguistic understanding dramatically changes the relationship between natural and human sciences by way of its tendency to question boundaries inherent to traditional theory. The three primary arguments within his theoretical stance include the interplay between tradition and rationality, the problematic aspect of social science methodology and the language-based universality of hermeneutic experience. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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within his theoretical stance include the interplay between tradition and rationality, the problematic aspect of social science methodology and the language-based universality of hermeneutic experience (The Council for Research in
Values and Philosophy, 2008). As such, philosophical hermeneutics remains an obstruction for the critical theorists activist program of emancipation through reflection upon the limitations of language and history. Thus,
Habermas criticizes hermeneutics claim to universality and its implication for a philosophy of history...philosophical hermeneutics fails to provide a critical norm as a requirement for overcoming the uncritical acceptance of
tradition. The emphasis on tradition as a continuous process which cannot be objectified as a whole covers over the fact that tradition is also the ground for the methodological
activity of the social sciences (The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2008). Pertinent to Habermass theory is his presence during postmodernism, a period that represented the
breaking free of certain social, political and economic strangulation that decreed all followers must abide by the same doctrines. Postmodernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of
modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classification. The influence of modernisms political and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution,
recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimate rise of the post-modernism movement, which encompassed the broad and far-reaching aspects of art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology,
politics, communications, fashion, and technology (Klages, 2003). Pitting conceptual and empirical analysis against each other, Habermas strives to support the ethereal nature of intangible knowledge against the stringent boundaries of
practical understanding. Rationalists like Habermas maintain that humanitys knowledge of the external world (if any) is justified upon the basis of input received from the senses; empiricists, in contrast,