In his dialogue with the then Cardenal Ratzinger, Habermas felt confident about grounding liberal Humanism in "weak assumptions about the normative content of the communicative condition of socio-cultural forms of life, to defend a non-defeatist notion of rationality against contextualism, and a non-decisionist notion of justice against legislative positivism" (2005: 19, my translation). Equally, Tzvetan Todorov candidly admits that "the humanist doctrine's anthropology [...] is relatively meager", for "Apart from the biological identity of the species, it is reduced to a single feature, sociability" (2002: 32).
works cited
Habermas, Jürgen & Ratzinger, Joseph. Dialektik der Säkularisierung: über Vernunft und Religion. Freiburg i. Brsg.: Herder, 2005.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002.