One Never Really Knows Who One's Enemy

Norms Appearing In The Form Of Law Entitle Actors To Exercise Their Rights Or Liberties. However, One Cannot Determine Which Of These Laws Are Legitimate Simply By Looking At The Form Of Individual Rights. Only By Bringing In The Discourse Principle Can One Show That Each Person Is Owed A Right To The Greatest Possible Measure Of Equal Liberties That Are Mutually Compatible.

If The September 11 Terror Attack Is Supposed To Constitute A Caesura In World History, It Must Be Able To Stand Comparison To Other Events Of World Historical Impact.

Instead Of The International Police Action We Had Hoped For During The War In Kosovo, There Are Wars Again - Conducted With State-of-the-art Technology, But Still In The Old Style

As Medium For Reaching Understanding, Speech Acts Serve: A) To Establish And Renew Interpersonal Relations, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Legitimate Social Orders; B) To Represent States And Events, Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The World Of Existing States Of Affairs; C) To Manifest Experiences That Is, To Represent Oneself- Whereby The Speaker Takes Up A Relation To Something In The Subjective World To Which He Has Privileged Access.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.