Volume 7 (2021), Edition 4

The coronavirus pandemic as an exceptional social situation demands social-philosophical answers. On the basis of care and power as relationship concepts, the following essay discusses several aspects of German pandemic law and its potential for the...

The legal and ethical justifiability of the measures taken to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has so far been discussed under the aspects of balancing goods and proportionality. The important distinction between negative and positive moral duties...

The question of the relationship between freedom and security is characteristic of the discourse in times of crisis. In the coronavirus pandemic, too, society is faced with the challenge of how a democratic order can overcome the security crisis...

The article deals with the ethical justification of distribution procedures in case of a shortage of life-saving resources, as they have been discussed since spring 2020 under the keyword ‘triage’. Considering individual human dignity and the...

The „Great Reset“ is an initiative of the World Economic Forum WEF which „resets“ in that it seeks to reshape the global economy and society. The associated set of measures portrays an uncertain, risky, unsustainable and barely inclusive...