2015•The International Encyclopedia of Political CommunicationRequires access
Discourse Ethics
William Rehg
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Abstract
Abstract Discourse ethics represents a recent innovation in neo‐Kantian moral theory that was first advanced by German critical theorists in the 1970s, most notably Jürgen Habermas and Karl‐Otto Apel. Also known as “communicative ethics,” discourse ethics distinguishes itself from parallel initiatives, such as that of John Rawls, by its insistence that valid moral norms must emerge from real dialogues that satisfy demanding conditions of reasonable argumentation. Discourse‐ethical considerations have informed research on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, legal adjudication, and participatory policy studies in technology, environmental governance, urban planning, and management,inter alia.