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Cognitive Interests

According to Habermas, Cognitive Interests are the "deep structure rules" which inform thought and action, and which constitute the world of experience.[1]

Cognitive interests include our technical, practical, and emancipatory interests.

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Non-LP Related Terms

Notes

Technical interests = aspects of knowledge and action concerned with manipulating the environment.

Practical interests = aspects of knowledge and action concerned with extending understanding and consensus.

Emancipatory interests = liberation from "historically contingent restraints through self-reflection. [2]

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Footnotes

  1. Scott, John P. “Critical Social Theory: An Introduction and Critique.” The British Journal of Sociology 29, no. 1 (1978): 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/589216. p. 2
  2. Scott, John P. “Critical Social Theory: An Introduction and Critique.” The British Journal of Sociology 29, no. 1 (1978): 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/589216. p. 2