englischUsing the example of the dignity of people with dementia as its basis, this book addresses the foundations of care ethics.

In medical ethics, dignity is often equated with ‘respect for autonomy’. As a result, people with dementia, who progressively lose the ability to make their own [...]

Wie soll sich die Europäische Union als Friedensnobelpreisträgerin, gerade angesichts der gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen in Fragen der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, ethisch korrekt verhalten? Als ursprüngliches Friedens- und Versöhnungsprojekt nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ins Leben gerufen und einem [...]

englisch The Chicago critics, a group of academics that gathered around Ronald S. Crane in the early 1930s, tackled questions that are still relevant today: What is more important — humanistic general education or vocational specialisation? How should a university define its function in the context [...]

Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit stehen die Begriffe der Fremdheit, Religion, Kultur und Toleranz als Gegenstände der rechtlichen Analyse des Umgangs mit dem Phänomen religiös-kultureller Fremdheit. Fremdheit jedweder Art stellt seit jeher, spätestens jedoch mit dem verstärkten Auftauchen „fremder“ [...]

englischIn the face of large budget deficits, two questions arise in a social market economy: the economic question concerning the intergenerational distribution effects of public debt and the ethical question of how these effects have a bearing on justice between generations: When is public debt [...]

englischThe time of theories on modernity of a philosophical and sociological nature has not yet expired by any means, as is sometimes presumed. On the contrary, our current era not only seems to almost need such theories but also to demand them. We are engaged in an ever-present search for a way of [...]

englischCarl Schmitt is still regarded by many as possibly the most brilliant expert in constitutional and international law of the 20th century and as certainly the most controversial. The dazzling author, brilliant analyst and scathing polemicist is one of most widely read German thinkers of the [...]