Human rights

  • Social Empowerment – a Way towards a Social Minimum of Justice

    One way to look at global justice is to find a way to define a social minimum according to which global justice can be defined. Although there are many different ways in which this minimum as the core of global social justice can be defined, I’d like to take a look at the so-called capabilities approach. I…

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  • Rebuilding Trust: Who to Trust in a Nihilist World?

    People often wonder what they would do in grave situations. Would they jump in the water to save a person from drowning? Or would they look the other way? Discussions regarding this often surmount to a general shrugging of the shoulders: we don’t know, how could we know and let’s leave it at that. In…

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