MULTICULTURALISMO, COMUNIDADE ÉTICA E TRANSNACIONALIDADE

Abstract

Multicultural societies are notable for the high degree of ethnic, cultural, ideological, and social differentiation within them, presenting social groups that are not always able to harmonize with the values and principles promoted by the political community, generally represented by the historically major group in that context. Tolerance between groups is a starting point for functional living, insofar as it depends on the capacity for conflict management and dialectic, but still insufficient to effect effective political participation aimed at the development of society as a whole. Multicultural society, in order to realize the interests of different groups and to promote the common good, must stimulate a sense of ethical community among its members, but this is only possible through the establishment of dialectic of recognition based on human dignity. The ethical community in multicultural societies is possible insofar as the individual recognizes himself in the other as active members of a society, open to ethnic and cultural differences, but harmonious in the defense of common principles and values that guarantee functional and intelligent coexistence in the various dialectics. The aim of this article is to present the dialectic of recognition based on human dignity as an effective condition of the ethical community in multicultural societies. Therefore, the research problem is: can the dialectic of recognition based on human dignity serve as a condition of the ethical community's effectiveness in multicultural societies? The method used is the inductive, by means of bibliographical research