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Abstract [en]: This critical analysis of Pope Francis‘ encyclical Fratelli Tutti discuss the – on some points superficial – criticism of the globalised economic and financial system. In contrast, the author Ulrich Hemel emphasizes the vision of good living together formulated in the encyclical, which considers in particular persons who are hurt and vulnerable. As a response to that, the social market...
Abstract [en]: After the election of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as the successor of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg shortly before the American presidential elections, this paper raises the question of the extent to which courts can be politically „neutral“. The question of role, function and legitimacy of constitutional courts arises because these courts have to juggle the crucial balancing act between...
Abstract [en]: In view of financial scandals like that of the Diocese Limburg there is a question to be asked about managerial monitoring systems in the Catholic Church, such as risk management or compliance management systems. Alexander Hanke highlights the importance of these systems and focuses on the hitherto unexplored question whether such an obligatory use of risk or compliance management...
Wohin geht unsere offene Gesellschaft? Abstract [en]: This talk tackles the crisis of the normative project of the West and the topicality of an illiberal world view that is ‘similar to national socialism’, as we are reminded by historian Fritz Stern. [1] We are experiencing a societal “rollback” that shows trends parallel to those of the inter-War times. The “rollback”...
