THE PROPOSAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTISM IN HABERMAS AND MÜLLER AS A SOLUTION OF SOCIAL COHESION IN MULTICULTURAL AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a dialectic of recognition in the Hegelian view as an epistemological condition for the realization of the proposal of constitutional patriotism, based on the conceptions of Habermas and Müller, with a view to achieving social cohesion in multicultural and democratic societies. One research starts from the premise that internal fragmentation in contemporary democratic societies, mainly due to transnational migrations, hinders unity and cohesion from the ideas of ethnicity, nation, and others. In this way or constitutional patriotism seeks to offer solution with unity being considered by respect for the Constitution, and no longer by a nationalist view. Constitutionalism is capable of guaranteeing social cohesion as a protection of the basic rights and individual freedoms of community members. The article also discusses the dialectic of recognition, arguing that this is an epistemological condition for constitutional patriotism. A research uses the inductive method, through bibliographical approach.