Abstract

Democracy provides a quite peculiar kind of recognition, based on the following theory: Since contents tend do make human beings struggle and since strong decisions tend to make this struggle even harder, forms have to be more important than contents and decisions have to soft. Thus, I believe, we tend to mix up complexity and uncertainty. It is therefore possible to criticize this theory by assuming that it is needed to find a way to embrace true complexity, namely complexity related to the relational nature of human beings. In order to achieve such objective, I will briefly trace the research back to G. W. F. Hegel’s method, to W. von Humboldt’s educational thought and to R. Tuomela’s insights on intersubjectivity.