„liberalism” — vyhledávání

On Pluralism and Diversity: A Response to Maria Paola Ferretti

Towards an Emotionalist Turn in the Theory of Public Justification I began writing my Ph.D. dissertation — which has formed the basis for my book discussed in the recent issue of Ratio Publica — in 2018.  Although Donald J. Trump had already co...

Důvody a podmínky přežití liberální demokracie

Dětství mé generace bylo poznamenáno jednak očekáváním úderu imperialistů a revanšistů, jednak slogany o tom, zda ten či onen živočišný nebo rostlinný druh přežije rok 2000.Za přečtení článku a připomínky k němu děkuji Tomáši Friedelovi a Davidu Vítovcovi...

Přístup striktně sekulárního státu k muslimskému zahalování ve školství: případ Francie

Muslimské závoje ve školních lavicích se z rozličných důvodů stávají v Evropě kontroverzními. Hlasy volající po jejich omezení hledají oporu hned v několika argumentech, jakými je snaha o liberalismus, rovnostářství nebo integraci menšiny d...

Religious Argument as an Argument from Authority

Given that religion has been a constant of human civilization across the ages, and still is present even where it is in decline, it is natural to assume that believers will shape their lives and their preferences for the common life in society according t...

Public Reasoning and the Role of Civic Empathy

Writing a book about respect and public reasoning takes a certain kind of courage in current times. With political polarization at historic heights and partisan divides growing deeper, offering models for public debate based on shared values, both ethical...

Is Individualism the Intrinsic Quality of Natural Rights?

In his seminal book, The Idea of Natural Rights, Brian Tierney offers a detailed account of how the modern concept of natural rights grew over centuries from the seeds sown by medieval jurists in continental Europe.TIERNEY, Brian. The Idea of Natural Righ...

Zásady civilního procesu

Human Dignity between Competing Moral Traditions

The order of values permeating the key document of the ‘New Age of Rights’, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights rests on a concept of the dignity the human person.GLENDON, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration o...

Legitimita trestnoprávneho obmedzovania nenávistných prejavov v demokracii

Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them. Roger Scruton [T]he citizen prerogative of non-viewpoint-punitive expression within public discourse, must be such that...

Democracy as a Social Construction for the Reaching of Recognition and Dignity

Axel Honneth begins his studies on the theory of recognition through the book "The struggle for recognition: the moral grammar of social conflicts" (1992 “Kampf um Anerkennung”, in the following mentioned as "Struggle for recognition"). There, he introduc...