ABSTRACT
It is as well a philosophy embedded in the human sciences and affording a rather holistic descriptive-explanatory-interpretive account of our condition. This normative endeavor will involve a critical theory yielding as an integral part of itself a theory, or at least an account, of morality that is in some sense critical, an account that would show what a critical morality would be like and proceed to develop one as a core part of a critical theory. It is also true that within the culture of modernity there is disagreement as well as consensus, but what is important for wide reflective equilibrium is that there is consensus and, as in any justificatory venture, it is unavoidable that we start from there. Critical theory, while remaining descriptive-explanatory, will also provide a comprehensive critique of culture, society, and ideology. Critical theory is a definite project of modernity growing out of the Enlightenment, which is now under postmodernist attack.
