The assumptions of political and legal thought of Jürgen Habermas

Abstract

The way that Habermas reconstructs the legitimacy of the law and the modern political power includes a major renovation of the language used to thinks the politics. If political theory used to use a conceptual record based on the conflict, the management of violence, the use of force, the antagonism of classes, the couple friend/enemy, the need to build strategies to advance towards better living conditions, in the work of German author those notions are replaced by cooperation, exchange of good reasons, the primacy of the better argument, the agreement between free and equal citizens. In this work I am interested to note those aspects that Habermas's theoretical proposal does not explain because they are assumed.