El reconocimiento recíproco como base normativa del encuentro intercultural

The philosophical concept of «recognition», on its normative perspective, can be taken as the basis and condition of possibility of intercultural encounter. In this sense (I), the very concept of «interculturalism» acquires, therefore, likewise normative connotations. The reflection on reciprocal recognition that begins with Fichte (II), understood such a concept as a condition for the formation of conscience, allows in turn a reading in reference to the human community. Likewise, the Hegelian model of recognition (III) reveals its importance as a prerequisite for the formation of a concrete ethical life. Nevertheless, the Hegelian «over-institutionalized» ethical life introduces us to Honneth’s proposal (IV) of mutual recognition as a normative content and explanatory category of social conflicts. All this allows us, in last term (V), to expose some final thoughts about the relationship between recognition and interculturality.