Taking Up Deliberative Democracy and Tolerance of Indonesian Plural Society From Axel Honneth’s Recognition Perspectives

Modernity has a quite serious impact on both humans and humanity. The world is boundless because it's not onlya place but a set of values that determine how humans are arranged and controlled technologically. This research questions the phenomenon of shifting values of Indonesian plurality, which no longer reinforces the basis of deliberation as the best way to overcome the conflicts of their community. Strengthening social conflicts with identity issues (race, ethnicity, class, and religion) triggers disintegration between citizens. By using the perspective of “recognition” of Axel Honneth, this study not only questions the deliberative democracy but also the praxis of tolerance that is used to dialogue the social plurality of the nation's history. According to Honneth, each individual becomes what they are only in and through a relationship of mutual recognition with others. Mutual recognition is an overall characteristic of a society's intersubjective relations. So, it should go beyond the praxis of tolerance, the dimension of recognition, not only placed but also must be established as a “conditio sine qua non” that strengthens the multicultural rationality of the Indonesian. Three types of recognition: love, respect, and esteem can overcome the deliberative consensus pathology experienced in a plural society.