Together, their work signals a new direction in the field and offers refreshingly original insights into a broad spectrum of texts.

Contract-based approaches have been a focus of attention in business ethics. As one of the grand traditions in political philosophy, contractarianism is founded on the notion that we will never resolve deep moral disagreement. Classical philosophers like Hobbes and Locke, or recent ones like Rawls and Gaus, seek to solve ethical conflicts on the level of social rules and procedures. Recent authors in business ethics have sought to utilize contract-based approaches for their field and to apply it to concrete business (...) dilemmas. However, the application of contractarianism to management contexts can cause difficulties. Our article discusses this conceptual problem of contractarian business ethics and presents the idea of order ethics as an alternative. Order ethics, as we argue, can make a difference by conceptually bridging the gap between contractarianism and business ethics. (shrink)

There continues to be numerous unsettled legal issues surrounding stolen artwork nearly 60 years after the end of the Second World War. This book presents the actual and legal proceedings regarding restitution by the Western Allies based on numerous documents that were viewed in diverse archives.

Das positive Recht dient der Regulierung des Verhaltens der Staatsbürger. Es bedingt damit eine einseitige Einschränkung der persönlichen Freiheit jedes Einzelnen. Die Rechtslehren Hans Kelsens und Immanuel Kants weisen den Weg zur prinzipientheoretischen Begründung des positiven Rechts, das sich mithin als Erkenntnisprodukt jedes Bürgers erweist.

Catholic priests who sexually abused minors were transferred to other parishes without disclosing the actual reason for their transfer. Based on reports from Ireland, Germany, and the USA, and relying on Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus, this article demonstrates that first, the practices of denying and withholding information even to fellow priests are consequences of the repression of sexuality within the Catholic Church. The Church has not provided a legitimate language for priests to be able to engage openly about (...) sexuality. Sexual repression as a field structure is incorporated into the priests’ habitus, resulting in self-censorship when it comes to articulating the issue of sexual abuse. Secondly, the article accounts for the change within the Catholic field and the priest’s habitus, which has resulted in the facility to verbally express sexual matters in order that the undisclosed practice of transferring abusive priests finally stopped. (shrink)

This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged with contemporary global movements for social justice and peace, reflects their efforts in trying ...