Discourse ethics is the best foundation for the civil ethics of a morally pluralist society, but only on condition that it does not remain merely at its procedural level, going on instead to bring out its cordial dimension. But in this case it goes from being the ethics of discourse to become ethica cordis. This article tries to take precisely this step and to this end covers three stages: 1) to what extent bonds are necessary, 2) what the discursive bond consists of, 3) how the communicative bond includes the discursive one and goes beyond this, giving rise to an ethics of cordial reason.... [Leer más...]