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Lo, Kai Ching. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-221). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Acknowledgement --- p.vi ; Abstract --- p.viii ; INTRODUCTION --- p.1 ; Chapter I. --- The Problem: A Brief Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter I.a. --- Research Problems --- p.1 ; Chapter I.b. --- The Subject Matters --- p.2 ; Chapter I.e. --- Conceptualization of the Subject Matters --- p.3 ; Chapter I.d. --- "The Orientation of the Research: Habermas, Luhmann, and Theory" --- p.6 ; Chapter I.e. --- Outline of the Research Result --- p.13 ; Chapter II. --- The Context --- p.17 ; Chapter II.a. --- Ethics and Morality in Modern Society --- p.17 ; Chapter II.b. --- Ethics and Morality in Sociology --- p.19 ; Chapter II.b.l. --- Durkheim and Weber: Conception of Ethics and Morality --- p.20 ; Chapter II.b.2. --- Successions and Revisions of Durkheim's and Weber's Perspectives --- p.25 ; Chapter II.b.3. --- Habermas's and Luhmann's Breakthrough --- p.29 ; Chapter III. --- The Framework --- p.31 ; Chapter III.a. --- The Use of Metatheory --- p.31 ; Chapter III.b. --- The Limitation of this thesis --- p.33 ; Chapter PART I. --- HABERMAS AND LUHMANN AS THE EXEMPLARS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES OF ETHICS AND MORALITY --- p.35 ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Habermas's Discourse Ethics and The Theory of Communicative Action --- p.37 ; Chapter 1.1. --- Discourse Ethics --- p.38 ; Chapter 1.1.1. --- Discourse Ethics as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.40 ; Chapter 1.1.2. --- The Logic of Discourse Ethics --- p.46 ; Chapter 1.1.3. --- Morality and Ethical Life: From Philosophy and Politics to Sociology --- p.53 ; Chapter 1.2. --- The Theory of Communicative Action: The Sociological Foundation of Discourse Ethics --- p.61 ; Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Paradox of Rationalization and the Paradigmatic Change --- p.63 ; Chapter 1.2.2. --- Universal Pragmatics: The Foundation of Moral Order --- p.65 ; Chapter 1.2.3. --- Communicative Rationality and the Life world: The ...