The Ethical Philosophy of Karl Otto Apel

Abstract

Karl Otto Apel's philosophy is one of the important philosophies that knows a remarkable interest in intellectual circles today, especially after his transformative project, which included several different and disparate philosophical and intellectual aspects that made it a continental philosophy, and perhaps the ethical philosophy occupies a wide space of intellectual interest for Aple, especially after re-reading the Kantian legacy For ethics, and after modern man entered the mazes of a crisis caused by the compulsion behind the search for causes and reasons to control nature, Apel linked his talk about ethics to a set of basic current concepts that represent the cornerstone of contemporary philosophy and the daily life of the subjects, represented in discussion, communication, discourse of science, Shared responsibility, the most important of which is language, as it is a mediator, whether in the communicative society or the science community, so what is the concept of ethics? What are the foundations and mechanisms that Aple has put forward in switching from ethics to etiquette, especially in the era of scientific progress? The reasons for dealing with this issue are due to the importance of the ethical discourse, given the wars and crises in the world today that distort its present and threaten its future, as well as lead to loosening the moral foundations and ethical standards that hastened the necessity of the return of ethics.