Abstract
Evolutionary and Neuronal Game Theory depicts an emotional and moral anchorage for human cooperation . The ligatio that ob-liges the parties requires critical reflection that validates both the stimuli that engenders and promotes it and their sense of being. This appropriate normative frame can be developed from reciprocity itself; that is, through mutually recognising the value of the bound or bindable parties for their affective competence, for their ability to feel emotion for themselves and others and for their communication capacity for dialogue and for reaching agreements with others on different matters concerning the world. The aim of this chapter is to look in-depth at the ethical and affective basis reciprocity through reciprocal recognition theory, particularly in the works by Jürgen Habermas , Axel Honneth and Adela Cortina .
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As Habermas stated on this matter, “(…) we should not let ourselves be inveigled, by this step of abstraction leading to ‘human dignity ’ and to Kant’s single ‘human right ’ into forgetting that the moral community of free and equal subjects of human rights does not form a ‘kingdom of ends’ in the noumenal beyond, but remains embedded in concrete forms of life and their ethos” (2003: 37).
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At this point, Habermas works on the internal connection between the principle of justice –expecting equal respect and equal rights for all individuals– and the solidarity principle – concern for others’ well-being (2001: 67–70).
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Habermas , according to Taylor , has worked to refute the assumed antagonism between these two types of recognition (1999: 189–227).
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Some of these ideas come from thinkers like Machiavelli, Hobbes or Rousseau (Honneth 1998: 23).
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Calvo, P. (2018). Cordial Recognition: The Communicative and Affective Link in Human Relationships. In: The Cordial Economy - Ethics, Recognition and Reciprocity. Ethical Economy, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90784-0_5
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