My dissertation

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​​Postmetaphysical thinking can make its contribution to the commitment of metaphysics to the challenges of everyday life whose social context frames the interaction of the people. Under this point of view the cognitive processes according to Kant, transcendental subjects are communicative and require the communicative interaction of human consciousness.

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In the context of Habermas’ approach, both can be analyzed as the shift from the metaphysical paradigm of subject-to-use philosophy of consciousness to the postmetaphysical paradigm of philosophy of intersubjectivity and the detranscendentalisation or rather socialization of the concept of reason in the first chapter of this dissertation. Starting from this analysis, the cognitive and moral development of consciousness can be explained in the second chapter from the perspective of the theory of communicative action.​

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Afterwards the communicative interaction of consciousness is considered in the light of what Habermas calls “soft” naturalism whose concept of “nature-conditioned freedom” weakens both the Kantian concept of freedom and the way of thinking of neurobiological determinism. With the help of the concept of “nature-conditioned freedom” Habermas’ “soft” naturalism can reconcile communicatively by means of a flexible determinism the interaction between the brain and consciousness and can socialize conceptually their cognitive interaction.

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Habermas’ & Mucks’ concept of truth will be dealt with too in the third chapter, the content of which is a postdiscursive contribution to the interpretation of communicative interaction of consciousness from the standpoint of the victims in the fourth chapter. This helps liberation-philosophical approach of E. Dussel, because his ethics and politics of liberation subsume Habermas’ discourse-theoretical formalism and complement it with material contents and with the efficient feasibility stages of practice.