RphZ Rechtsphilosophie

The introduction of the basic pension, an individual basic pension supplement granted if obligatory contributions to the statutory pension insurance have been paid for decades from below-average earnings, is taken as an opportunity to reflect on the...

The aim of the following enquiry is to reconstruct recognition as an essential building block of Rawls’s egalitarian liberalism, and there to examine in particular the nuanced translation of recognition into forms of law. Thus, through this...

The text develops three theses: First, equality has three juridical aspects, namely universal equality, particular equality and social equality. Second, liberal freedom must always appear in these three aspects simultaneously in order to become...