Covid 19 and the Liberal State, John Stuart Mill and the Question of Civil Liberty
Activity: Talk or presentation at external institutions/events › Talk/Presentation › Contributed
Persons and affiliations
- Miriam Fink - , Chair of Social Sciences, International Institute Zittau (Speaker)
- Michael Aßländer - , Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Chair of Social Sciences, International Institute Zittau (Speaker)
Date
14 May 2021
Description
ABSRACT: The coronavirus pandemic apparently has become the most pressing challenge of the beginning of the 21st century. The measures undertaken by national governments for containing the COVID-19 pandemic go along with fundamental restrictions of civil rights and constraints of civil liberties with huge restrictions for economic activities, too. In our contribution we want to discuss these restrictions from a liberal point of view as it is outlined in John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty” and draws some conclusions about the legitimacy of the preset restrictions of civil and economic liberties in cases of pandemic diseases.Commentator: Professor Geert Demuijnck, EDHEC Business School, Lille, France (EBEN)
Workshop
| Title | Rethinking Political Economy in the Age of Crisis |
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| Subtitle | Society for Business Ethics (SBE) & European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Panel |
| Description | A joint EBEN/SBE Panel on 21st century sustainable development in the age of crisis |
| Duration | 14 May 2021 |
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| Degree of recognition | International event |
| Location | online |
Keywords
Keywords
- Corona Pandemic, John Stuart Mill