Social struggle and moral progress: from Foucault to Honneth
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18041/1794-7200/criteriojuridico.1%20Enero-Ju.683Keywords:
Recognition, social struggle, ethics, citizenship, social philosophy, disparaglmentAbstract
Honneth attempts to philosophize based on coordinates which are anchored to the social world, recognizing that the principles and values of a society are embodied in practices and institutions, and continues to envision that there must be a device such as ethics to assess these practices, refine them, correct them when they do not meet the requirements of a just political order. If this does not happen, the social struggle acquires its full meaning, and requires the active participation of citizens to build more stable democracies which are consistent with the values of modernity. In this sense, social struggles are a reliable indicator of the moral progress of peoples inasmuch as they believe that mutual recognition is an essential condition of dignity and the exercise of freedom.
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