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    Die Herausforderung der Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter
    In Julian Nida-Rümelin, Timo Greger & Andreas Oldenbourg (eds.), Normative Konstituenzien der Demokratie, De Gruyter. pp. 31-54. 2024.
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    Hobbes’s theory of authorisation poses numerous puzzles to scholars. The weightiest of these conundrums is a supposed contradiction between chapter 17 of Leviathan, that calls for unconditional submission to the sovereign, and chapter 21, that defends the liberties of the subject. This article offers a fresh perspective on the theory’s consistency, function and addressees. While existing research doubts the theory’s consistency, focuses on its immunisation function and on the subjects as the the…Read more
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    „Liberale Eugenik“ mit John Rawls?
    Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8 (2): 175-208. 2022.
    Durch die Entdeckung und das vertiefte Verständnis der sogenannten „Genscheren“ CRISPR/Cas9 rücken Eingriffe in das Genom zukünftiger Menschen in greifbare Nähe und erfordern mit neuer Dringlichkeit die Beantwortung einer fundamentalen politiktheoretischen Frage: Können Eingriffe in die genetische Ausstattung zukünftiger Menschen im Namen der Gerechtigkeit erlaubt oder gar geboten sein? Rawls’sche Theorieelemente haben in der Debatte um Keimbahneingriffe – trotz Rawls’ vergleichsweise spärlicher…Read more
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    Feminist Perspectives on Hobbes
    Hobbes Studies 33 (1): 1-4. 2020.
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    Is Genome Editing Unnatural?
    In Matthias Braun, Hannah Schickl & Peter Dabrock (eds.), Between Moral Hazard and Legal Uncertainty: Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges of Human Genome Editing, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 111-128. 2018.
    The concept of nature and naturalness plays an important role in academic and public bioethical discussions. Given the obvious weakness of arguments that are based on a genetic and/or totalizing view of nature, the immense and repeated efforts to criticize them demand explanation. The repeated critique of such weak arguments and the tendency to avoid the category of nature can be explained by political motivations. While an unjustified appeal to nature, or a description of genome editing as unna…Read more
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    I Professed to Write Not All to All
    Hobbes Studies 30 (2): 123-155. 2017.
    _ Source: _Volume 30, Issue 2, pp 123 - 155 While there are old questions in research on Hobbes regarding which audience he addressed in each of his different works – e.g. there are speculations that _De Cive_ is addressed to scientists and _Leviathan_ to the English people – another question has rarely been discussed and only recently reconsidered: Might Hobbes have addressed different audiences also _within_ one and the same text, and if so, might he have intended to communicate different mess…Read more