ABSTRACT

Social learning is the first stage that individuals engage within a genuinely deliberative environment. If the subject is not captured within its continuously evolving interactive environment with others, that is, that individuals come upon themselves in an ever-expanding fashion in their communicative interaction with others. The importance of Hagermas's emphasis on the dialogic conditions of moral development stems from the fact that his move represents a shift from a subject-oriented to an intersubjective paradigm. The role of the subject is central because its characteristics determine the nature of the deliberative process. Rawls was an American moral and political philosopher he reference to the social learning aspect of deliberation is limited to a monological learning process as the accumulation of knowledge about the practical world. Habermas acknowledges that in building his communicative model of action he has taken all the functions of language equally into account, including Gadamer's hermeneutics.