Abstract
Within Apelian transcendental pragmatics of communication, central importance is given to the project of grounding some morally normative requirements in the practice of argumentative discourse. According to Karl-Otto Apel, the dialogical practice of fully engaged argumentative discourse necessarily involves conceptually normative presuppositions some of which have a universally valid and recognizably moral content. The central contention of a “discourse ethics” is to identify conceptually normative presuppositions of argumentation, to select those that are morally charged, and then to develop whatever thin moral content they have into a coherent core conception of a morality with unassailable rational credentials. This chapter offers an elaborate defense of Apel’s original intuition that by reflexive recourse to practices of discoursive argumentation we can ground in a rationally definitive way certain normative requirements (moral and other) which rational persons as such must meet.
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