Human society and rights thought from Habermas's communicative reason

Abstract

Habermas brings us a model of acting in society that privileges discourse and communication as mediators for the resolution of social and human problems in a cluster of linguistic facts having a discursive matrix and playing a central role in all his discursive theory, built against the background of the communicative action. This kind of action, that privileges discourse in a dialogical, circular way, with the purpose of knowing the truth, is the result of an intersubjective experience in the social space, severed from any singular correlation, and much more connected to a universal pragmatics, asserting that this space is the only means by which a community can think its common problems, with the goal of constructing solutions that are shared by all in the moral and legal spheres, working as means of consensus, of discourse as the purpose of a just agreement among all parties involved in this process.