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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 ...

The ethical distress of the (post)modern world stimulates and directs us to reflect our ethical and cultural grounds. Man is a transcendent being. He cannot reach or put in order immediate goods he needs if he is not prepared to acknowledge the grounds of his person and develop the virtues of prudence, love, hope, faith, wisdom, justice, courage, temperance etc. These are ethical questions concerning different worldviews and cannot be solved only by scientific methods. Many people who in the past did not care for religion as such, now take seriously religious personal and societal aspects of humane life. The fundamental crucial questions of man are ethical questions. They are in various ways related or perplexed with the question of faith and of science.