The practical reason as a legacy of the Enlightenment

Abstract

Among the different tendences that shape the philosophical landscape at the end of the century, the partisans of the critical modernity,, seem to keep considering the project of the Enlightment as a cultural project that deserves a continuation. From this point of view. the author tries to rethink the most genuine essay of the Enlightment in the field of ethics: the Kantian formalism. She endeavours a defence of the validity of the procedimental ethics on the light of the “dialogic” proposals of K. O. Apel and J. Habermas.