Communicative action is thus an inherently consensual form of social coordination in which actors "mobilize the potential for rationality" given with ordinary language and its telos of rationally motivated agreement.
Behind this kind of ethics stands the Aristotelian notion of entelechy: humans have a natural potential to develop rationality and through it acquire virtuous character.
In concrete terms, this means that Habermas develops a two-level social theory that includes an analysis of communicative rationality, the rational potential built into everyday speech, on the one hand; and a theory of modern society and modernization, on the other (White 1989).
In its institutionalised role, ethics expertise is regarded as a "'neutral' normative tool, endowed with the potential to speak for rationality" (Tallacchini 2009, pp 281).
Optimal centralized charging station planning is not only pervasive enough to meet the requirement of EV charging, but also has the potential to improve the rationality of power grid structure as a distributed power station.
The results show that the new model can greatly improve the CFD-PBM simulation, and the DSD predicted is in good agreement with experiments, demonstrating the rationality and potential of this new approach.
I asked several of the younger New Labourites whether the technocratic tedium inherent in the Third Way — all those cautious promises, the rejiggerings of the bureaucratic process, all that rationality — was a potential problem.
Together, these characteristics give humans the potential to achieve self-consciousness, rationality, and morality.
This assumption is not one of perfect or rational behaviour but of a type of bounded rationality based upon a potential universe of prior beliefs or heuristics.
A closed-form solution of hybrid lattice is used to demonstrate the rationality and the large potential of the proposed method in finding the solutions of FDDEs.
