Habermas -- Knowledge and Human Interest

[]{objektivism}Objectivism in no way prevents the sciences from intervening in the conduct of life, as HUsserl thought it did[]
[]{teknik, nomologisk vetenskap, upplyst handlande}the posititivist self-understanding of the *nomological sciences* lends countenance to the substitution of technology for enlightened action[teknik ersätter upplyst handlande]
[]{}The dimension in which acting subjects could arrive rationally at agreement about goals and purposes is surrendered to the obscure area of mere decision among reified value systems and irrational beliefs. When this dimension, abandoned by all men of good will, is subjected to reflection that relates to history objectivlstically, as did the philosophical tradition; then positivism triumphs at the highest level of thought, as with Comte.

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