Condições de reconstrução normativa na teoria dos sistemas de Niklas Luhmann

Abstract

In the present work it is proposed a metahetical view on Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Self-Referential Communicative Social Systems in which it is sought to identify on which conditions it is possible to occur the normative reconstruction in social systems. As systems operate in an environment of infinite complexity, creating internal complexity to be able to process and reduce external complexity as a condition of operability, normative reconstruction becomes a condition of systemic continuity. Systems that cannot, in the process of forming value judgments to construct meaning, control the content of the justifying beliefs of these moral judgments, even allowing their alteration, do not have conditions of continuity in an increasingly complex environment. In this context, self-referencing is the condition for normative reconstruction in social systems, capable of allowing, in the formation of value judgments, that their justifying beliefs be given as a problem, allowing a control over moral content through perceptivity.