Human Dignity, Religious Freedom and Government - Historical Traditions, Philosophical Interpretations, Legal Implementation and Political Challenges - Description for RF Students

Dozent/in	Prof. Dr. Antonius Liedhegener; Prof. Dr. iur. can. lic. theol. Adrian Loretan; Kyriaki Topidi, PhD
Veranstaltungsart	Masterseminar
Code	FS151485
Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2015
Durchführender Fachbereich	Öffentliches Recht
Studienstufe	Master
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Inhalt	Human dignity, as the foundation concept in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is the central und most fundamental reference point for an interpretation and an understanding of the modern human rights-ethos. This concept of human dignity is normative and universalistic. While human dignity is a central reference point for modern legal and moral systems, the notion is under intense discussion in academic as well as in political contexts. There is the notorious suspicion that human dignity is a distinctively Western notion, articulation of the imperialistic attitude of Western philosophy and theology that functions as a legitimization of Western superiority, of imperialistic wars against the non-western world. Thus, human dignity has many legal and political implications and consequences which have to be studied scientifically by normative and empirical approaches. The right to religious freedom will form a test-case for the concept and role of human dignity in legal and political contexts.
Sprache	Englisch
Anmeldung	Registration/Deregistration mandatory on the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" from Feb 2 until Feb 27, 2015.
Abschlussform / Credits	Class participation (30%), individual project (paper and oral presentation, 70%) / 6 Credits
Hinweise	Weekly class: Wednesday, 5-7 h, p.m. from February 18 - May 27, 2015.
Hörer-/innen	Nein
Kontakt	antonius.liedhegener@unilu.ch adrian.loretan@unilu.ch kyriaki.topidi@unilu.ch
Material	Will be available at the start of the course.
Anzahl Anmeldungen	6 von maximal 18
Literatur	Veit Bader, Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity (= IMISCOE Research) Amsterdam 2007. Marcus Düwell, (Hgg.), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge u.a. 2014.