Democracia como forma de vida: Cultura política e eticidade democrática em Axel Honneth:

The article intends to analyze the idea of ​​democracy as a form of life based on Axel Honneth’s most recent works. In the first section, I differentiate the normative conception of social democracy developed by Honneth, comparing it to the republican and procedural versions. Then, I analyze how democratic ethicity could be presented in a greater degree of complexity, paying attention to the effectiveness of freedom in three central social spheres: personal relationships, economic interactions and political will formation. It is a matter of paying attention, above all, to the way in which democratic political culture condenses the correlation between different social spheres. I close the article by emphasizing some limits of the reflection provided by the author. On the one hand, systematic phenomena of violence and domination, which in fact endanger a socially effective democracy, are absent from its formulation; on the other hand, the role of social struggles for the differentiated realization of freedom in our political culture is not clear.