This article approaches the Albrecht Wellmer's critic to moral theories which are based on universalistic principles. Our starting point is his attempt to review the very idea of moral universalism. Afterwards, we lean over his radical critics to all kinds of principiological moral universalism, whose main example, on his theoretical context, is the Jürgen Habermas's Ethic of Discourse. Finally, we try to grasp some possible alternatives, overall the possibility of elaboration of moral theory on the basis of a theory of social recognition.
Moral universalism; Albrecht Wellmer; Ethic of Discourse; struggles over recognition