SELF-DETERMINATION OR SOLIDARITY?: FRANKLIN AND HABERMAS ON CHOOSING ENLIGHTENMENT
Issued Date: 9 Oct 2013
Abstract
Rather than use Habermas’s writings as a paradigm for critiquing The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, I intend to evaluate and to analyze the dynamic tension that develops between the ideas of pluralism and individualism. I will consider how Franklin defines rationalization and reason and how he continually adapts the definitions to recontextualize individual needs, interests, and values within the emergent general will. I will also suggest the ways in which Habermas’s theoretical language accommodates Franklin’s concept of self-determinism within his own conception of noncoercive consensus.
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DOI: 10.1558/eph.v18i1.17
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