Zu den Aufgaben der gegenwärtigen Kommunikationsethik aus der Perspektive der sprachethischen Nachkriegsreflexion Dolf Sternbergers

About the tasks of the contemporary communication ethics from Dolf Sternberger’s post-war reflection perspective on communication morality The aim of the publication is to analyze the tasks of the contemporary discourse of the communication ethics in relation to post-war reflection of the German journalist Dolf Sternberger concerning the moral use of language and to point out new research and didactic perspectives of this discourse. The author turns reader’s attention to the need to justify moral communication rules, primarily on the personalistic basis recognizing interpersonal communication as personal participation of language users in a given community. Moreover, he states that the task of communication ethics as an academic discipline is, among other things, to establish criteria for describing speech actions in relation to highly regarded values and those protected by law and to identify mechanisms of unethical use of language. According to him, communication ethics as a didactic discipline should promote values on which moral use of language is based, show effects of unethical speech actions and among others, propagate desirable ways of using a word on a moral basis.