The Function of Civil Society in He gel and Habermas

This article seeks to present the function that civil society fulfills in Hegel and Habermas. In this paper, civil society is characterized summarily, tending to the view of determining its functions. In Hegel, civil society is related to the production of wealth and fulfils an organizing and educational function. In Habermas, it is not related to the economics, since it is constituted by the public sphere whose function is to pro duce democratically legitimized contents that ought to determine the pur poses of the State in terms of a system committed to realizing its purposes.