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This essay is a critique of Habermas’ communicative rationality from the point of view of the perichoresis rationality that demands difference in unity and to disclose on the basis of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social system. Habermas accepts substantial differences of rationality as well as diversities of social form as a premise of his own communicative rationality. But, as a result, he essentially revokes a power of difference and diversity because he thinks they are not internal but external to his own communicative rationality. Accordingly, Habermas’ communicative rationality cannot satisfy the perichoresis rationality which considers diversity as internal and necessary to rationality. The perichoresis rationality gives a warm reception to difference and diversity as an enabling condition of a creative harmony.