studies on truth and on the pragmatic theory of meaning. Part III contains a surprising revision to Habermas’s theory of truth that has important ramifications for discourse ethics.

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The lion’s share of Habermas’s social theory is contained in

The Theory of Communicative Action , vol. 2, tr. Thomas McCarthy (Cambridge:

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Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action,

tr. Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990 [1983]). This is a collection of seminal essays on the programme of discourse ethics. It should be read alongside the later collection,

Justification and Application,

tr. C. Cronin (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993 [1991]), an important collection of essays, in which Habermas responds to criticisms and develops the distinction between morality and ethics.

النظرية السياسية والقانونية 'Law and Morality’, tr. Kenneth Baynes, in

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