Knowledge and Ability
摘要
In his book Postmetaphysical Thinking, Jürgen Habermas rightly states: “The horizon of modernity is shifting.” With this, he refers to the 19th and 20th centuries and diagnoses the following four motives: 1. the turn from metaphysical speculation to empirical science, 2. the transition from consciousness to language philosophy, 3. the primacy of the human lifeworld, and 4. the reversal of the relationship between theory and practice.