If dialectical negation is the motor of conceptual development, then a norm presupposing contradiction-avoidance forecloses the very movement by which norms acquire content and universality.
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In philosophy, the driving force or engine that makes something happen or change.
norm(Distinguished from purely external enforcement mechanisms; norms operate even when no external observer is present)
A culturally evolved mutual expectation held within a group, with the additional property that individuals who violate it may punish themselves through guilt or shame
universality(Distinguishing the nature as such from its mode of universality)
Not a constitutive mark of the common nature itself, but its unique and inseparable property