The Essentials of Habermas

Chapter One: Modernity

• I.       The Public sphere and space
• II.     Discourse and rational communication
• III.   Communicative  rationality;
• IV.   Modernity, enlightenment, and Habermas's rescue
• V.     Conclusion

Chapter Two: Discourse Ethics

• I. The nature and feature of discourse ethics
• II.     Obligation and value
• III.   The discourse principle
• IV.   The strength of discourse ethics
• V.     Kant, Scanlon, and Habermas
• VI.   Conclusion

Chapter Three: Truth and Justice

• I.       Rightness and truth
• II.     A reasonable political concept of justice
• III.   Ideal speech situation
• IV.   The role of overlapping consensus
• V.     Conclusion

Chapter Four: Morality, Public Law and Constitutional Democracy

• I.       Public law and morality
• II.     The institution of public laws
• III.   Constitutional democracy

Chapter Five: Cosmopolitanism

• I.       The ideal of cosmopolitanism
• II.     Human rights and cosmopolitanism
• III.   Three categories of public laws and three categories of civil rights
• IV.   A possible world constitution
• V.     Conclusion

• I.       The concept of tolerance
• II.     The object of tolerance
• III.   Tolerance as the match-maker of modern society
• IV.   Conclusion

 Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Climbing the mountain of modernity