The criticism of Habermas to the moral neutralization of the politics of Kant

Abstract

Habermas's deliberative politics considers that there is an internal tension between factuality and validity between the political and legal poles of the rule of law. Kant could have recognized it from the concept of self-legislation. However, due to the philosophy of consciousness and the metaphysical inheritance of natural law, he remained a prisoner of the conception of politics as a potential for violence at the disposal of the legislator, therefore, he morally neutralized it by a political theory without politics in which the philosophy of history explains how nature is in charge of carrying out the designs of practical reason.