In sociology, communicative action is cooperative action undertaken by individuals based upon mutual deliberation and argumentation. The term was devoloped by German philosopher-sociologist Jürgen Habermas in his work The Theory of Communicative Action.
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“The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.”
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