The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law-Jürgen Habermas

A lecture on international law by the preeminent philosopher Jürgen Habermas given at Purdue University.
Habermas discusses the challenges of political "realism" to the Kantian "idealism" of justice and equality.

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• International
• Law

[mercurygq]

Thanks for uploading this video. Now anybody in the world can can get a chance to hear the lecture of one of most huge philosopher in the world.

[carlosariars]

Thank you for uploading this. It's an honour just to see a video of one of the great philosophers of our time.

[theseanze]

I feel like I'm the only one who finds it ironic that Habermas, while being the primary proponent of a communicative theory of democracy and transcendence of semantics, has a borderline speech impediment and is an incredibly dense writer/speaker. In all seriousness, I wish he were able to walk the walk rather than spending his career talking about philosophical hypotheticals. Going along with that, people seem to cite his work more than engaging it in a horizontal/conversational way

[justoncho]

Hey guys, i need help with apaper (i´m a bit desperate). I´m tryng to critic Ulrich beck´s cosmopolitans theory, based primarly on Zigmunts Bauman´s, Richard Sennet´s, and Hanna Arendt´s arguments. Please help!

Ps: I was thinking of working with the notion of public spaces.

[pukkode]

Truly one of the greatest living philosophers. Hail Habermas!

[larilin]

@dogboxdogs newsflash: Habermas is a universalist

[jeranopaulo]

thanks for the video. i used his philosophy of communicative action in making my thesis which turned out to be the best thesis under our department. im looking forward to collecting more of his speeches, lectures, talks, etc. so long as they're in english. : ) tnx again.

[billyg89]

@dogboxdogs then we should be thankful for him. habermas is a philosopher definitively employed by idealism that the world can look up to.

[perricida]

Huge man

[thefozzyman]

Habermas had a cleft palate. He had surgery when he was very young, but it is still very apparent in his speach. Many times over, he has said he prefers the written word to the spoken word. However, he is considered one of the most knowledgable sociologists ever to live. His writing "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere" is one of the greatest critiques of public and private cuture ever. His wealth of knowledge is astounding.