The goal of this work is to put together the most important theoretical contributions concerning the recognition debate. We live in an era where the political and power axis shifted increasingly from the distribution of the symbolic recognition struggles. Contemporaneous democratic societies are marked by tension between the hegemonic global culture power and the aggravation of the particular identities struggles. The lack or false recognition results in a distorted formation of the self identity, and therefore, the recognition does not foresee courtesy, but something that should be guaranteed to others to consolidate a vital human need. Starting from the reflections proposed by Charles Taylor, Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, we intend to approach the theme, usually covered in the political philosophy, of the Constitutional Law and the Brazilian reality.