Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Persuasion in Language
Habermas argues that if you're actually trying to cause an effect in the world, that that is pursuing instrumental reason. He says there's a difference between persuasion and manipulation. When people do things because of what you say, that's a perilocutionary effect. The speaker cannot intend the aim of reaching understanding as something that is to be brought about causally.
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