Criticism without fundamental principles

Popa, O.E.

Criticism without fundamental principles

Journal article (2016)

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O.E. Popa Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Normativity Criticism Argumentation theory Idealizations Pragma-dialectics

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2016

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English

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In this paper I develop and defend a form of argumentative nor-mativity that is not based on fundamental principles. I first argue that research agendas that aim to discover (or claimed to have discovered) fundamental principles of 'good' argumentative discourse share one crucial weak spot, viz. circularity. I then argue that this weak spot can be avoided in a pancritical (Bartley, 1984) view of normativity.