The Essence And Significance Of Apels Transcendental Pragmatics

In the 20th century,analytic philosophy of language take up a dominant position in the British and American philosophy,and language replaced the cognitive theory as the Centre for philosophy research. Western philosophy has completed initial the Linguistic Turn. But the German philosopher Karl-Otto Apel think that this analysis ignores the dimensions of pragmatics in philosophy of language,easily lead to the errors on semantics,which can’t instead of Kant’s transcendental philosophy to become first the first of a new category enough. Therefore Apel considers that the transcendental philosophy again,he reconstructed Kant’s philosophical solipsism methodology. And based on the work of Martin Heidegger,Wittgenstein,Austin,Pierce,Morr,and absorbed criticism Marxist philosophy,Hermeneutics,1 analytic philosophy and the ideas of positivism, and referred to as language ontology mediation concepts——Communication Community,replaced with the principal method of complementarily between solipsism on the methodology,put forward his philosophy of transcendenta pragmatics in the end. Apel’s transcendental philosophy stressed the priorinature of language. Which designed to search for normative and validity of knowledge base,integrated antagonisms and divisions between understanding and explain,and which seeked to combine the pragmatic turnto make Western philosophy linguistic turn come true.Apel’s transcendental pragmatics is the most unique and include ideology of integration in modern Western philosophy,which has made great contribution to the development of the modern Western philosophy. Firstly, Apel believed that the interpretation of the language and the actor is in the main Communication Community. On the basis of integration between understanding" and "interpretation,which provide a good perspective for integration that analytic philosophy and hermeneutics.In addition, Apel had realized the inherent limitations of Kant’s transcendental philosophy, he had transformed of Kantian philosophy,and reconstructed of epistemology. In addition,the Apel’s philosophy had a broad impact in Germany philosophy, and had broadens Germany traditional knowledge on the field of study, which work had built a bridge for communication and exchange between Germany’s traditional philosophy and Western philosophy.