System And Consensus

The theory of system social integration based by instrumental rationality and the theory ofsocial integration based by culture or communication can be regarded as the key of Habermas’stheory.With the rapid development of modern science and technology, resulting in a huge poweror economic system based on the mode of thinking of the tool rational, orderly and efficientintegrated into the world, power or money become an important media to dominate the wholeworld.System intrusion "life world","life world" has become a "prison in the world", living incontrol system were described him as "non professional people, no feelings of pleasure" is a"living machine".Science and literature in opposition. Habermas inherited the weber’s theory,and used the "rational" described in Western world view of religion to the secular culturedisintegration process, technical rationality emphasizes rational universal, to replace the mythwith knowledge, this is the "Disenchantment" process.System development makes people andculture have super class alienation or materialized. System development makes people andculture have super class alienation or materialized. System development is the tool rationalthinking, become a technocratic work.The traditional social policy is decided by the valueorientation, but the ideology of technical rationality has caused money and power to theformulation of policy replaced communication based value, social integration has becomesystem integration, the understanding of policy and development requirements of "intersubjectivity" has become the "subjectivity". Formulate policies and regulations need legalsupport, legitimacy is a community of citizens to control or dominate their behavior of thepolitical system, economic system and legal system universally accepted.The lack of consensusbased system will gradually lose legitimacy, economy, politics and culture will emerge crisis. Inorder to guarantee the harmonious development of the world,"the life world" intrusion constantresistance system, communication agreement produce policy legitimacy, more accessible toordinary people to accept. This is called procedural democracy or ha democracy, such a way toreconcile liberalism and republicanism thought pattern. Of course, this theory also has certainlimitation, need to be further amended.System thinking brought "Power standard","Patriarchy","Pyramid suppressing mode"model of government, the transformation of the society need to construct the "people oriented","legal authority","structure of pluralistic power" as a new concept of power. Through the studyof "Habermas", to provide services for the construction of a harmonious society.