Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Habermas 9/22

This week our class was assigned to read the essay by Jurgen Habermas titled “Modernity- An Incomplete Project.” The section of this reading that caught my eye was the one titled The Project of Enlightenment. Habermas talks about the work of Max Weber when he writes, “He characterized cultural modernity as the separation of the substantive reason expressed in religion and metaphysics into three autonomous spheres. They are: science, morality, and art” (Habermas, 103). Habermas explained that Weber believed that you could put this idea into society than cultural modernity would exist. As explained in the reading this did not quite work out. There are so many different worldviews out there that you are not going to convince every single one. There are different world beliefs about religion and many other aspects of a society. I think morality is the best example of how people have different opinions on a subject.

I am taking a communication class that has to do with the ethics of communication. In class our professor gives us a situation but does not tell us what one should do in the situation but instead takes a vote. The question that we are voting on is usually a yes or no question. After we answer, he asks us why we chose that answer. There is no right or wrong answer to the yes or no question he explains but our reasoning behind the yes or no question decides if we are ethical and moral. People are not always going to have the same mindset so when you tell someone what morals are, they are going to hear it their own way and come up with their own definition of what being moral and ethical is.

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