Ideas from 'Between Facts and Norms' by Jürgen Habermas [1996], by Theme Structure

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
Actions norms are only valid if everyone possibly affected is involved in the discourse
                        Full Idea: Only those action norms are valid to which all possibly affected persons could agree as participants in rational discourse.
                        From: Jürgen Habermas (Between Facts and Norms [1996], p.107), quoted by James Gordon Finlayson - Habermas Ch.6:79
                        A reaction: This remark stands somewhere between Kant and Rawls. The Holocaust stands behind Habermas's philosophy. The thought, I suppose, is that it would never have happened if everybody had been fully involved in the original discourse about it.