This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.(April 2022) |
Discourse ethics refers to a type of argument that attempts to establish normative or ethical truths by examining the presuppositions of discourse.[1] The ethical theory originated with German philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel, and variations have been used by Frank Van Dun and Habermas' student Hans-Hermann Hoppe.[2]