哈贝马斯主张将他的交往行为理论和话语伦理学运用于处理不同文化传统和政治、宗教信仰的相互关系,在各种文化价值之间实现符合交往理性的话语平等与和谐共处。哈贝马斯对亨廷顿等提出的“文明冲突”理论进行了尖锐的批评,反对西方文明把自己的价值观强加给其它文明的做法,抨击了妄自尊大的自我价值至上的狭隘文明观。在全球化进程中,西方文化不能凭借其优势地位凌驾于其它文化之上,不同类型文化之间应平等地相互交流以达到共同生存、发展。 Habermas advocates his theory of communicative action and discourse ethics to deal with the interrelationship between different cultural traditions and political and religious beliefs and to achieve equality and harmonious coexistence of discourse with communicative rationality among various cultural values. Habermas sharply criticized Huntington’s “theory of clash of civilizations” and opposed the Western civilization’s imposition of its own values ​​on other civilizations, attacking the self-supremacy of self-esteem and narrow conception of civilization. In the process of globalization, Western culture can not rely on its superiority over other cultures. Different types of cultures should exchange with each other equally to achieve common existence and development.