"The philosophy of history can only glean from historical processes the reason it has already put into them with the h…"

"In the classical modern tradition of thought, the link between practical reason and social practice was too direct. T…"

"What makes communicative reason possible is the linguistic medium through which interactions are woven together and f…"

"Communicative rationality is expressed in a decentered complex of pervasive, transcendentally enabling structural con…"

"In contrast to sociological skepticism about law, philosophical theories of justice resolutely work out the moral con…"

"Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determin…"

"The law presents itself as a system of rights only as long as we consider it in terms of its specific function of sta…"

"In short, the state becomes necessary as a sanctioning, organizing, and executive power because rights must be enforc…"

"The conceptual framework of modern natural law, as developed in the tradition of the philosophy of the subject, block…"

"Modern societies have since become so complex that these two conceptual motifs—that of a society concentrated in the …"