Vom 7. bis 13. Juli 2019 findet an der Universität Luzern der XXIX. Weltkongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (IVR) statt. Das diesjährige Kongressthema lautet “Democracy, Dignity, Diversity”. Zusammen mit den Kolleg_Innen Annette Förster (Aachen), Wulf Loh (Tübingen) und Katja Stoppenbrink (Universität Münster) organisiere ich einen Special Workshop zum Thema “Preserving democracy through undemocratic means?”. Hier die Kurzbeschreibung:
Contrary to the legal saying “Fiat iustitia, pereat mundus”, can the preservation of democratic ideals sometimes make it necessary to soften or even violate legal norms? In other words: Can there be (democratically) legitimate – though illegal – action at and beyond the limits of a democratic legal and political system? Or does a deviation from the legality always surrender the normative ideal of democracy?
The workshop engages with a variety of constellations, in which the adherence to democratic norms and legal principles conflicts with upholding the democratic system or with preserving its basic normative pillars. The perspectives the workshop intends to address range from the role of civil disobedience in a democratic society to question political decisions, to the suspension of basic rights in a state of emergency to maintain security or the suspension of humanitarian law in supreme emergency cases, to the fundamental violation of human dignity through the practice of torture to save lives.
Weitere Kurzbeschreibungen für Panels und Workshops können hier eingesehen werden.
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