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The event is in German language and takes place within the Excellence Strategy ConTrans (Constitution as Practice in Times of Transformation). [more]

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From Thomas Hobbes to Joseph Raz philosophical accounts of authority have struggled to accommodate its dependence on doing the right thing. The delivery of substantively defensible results remains relevant, even in the case of Hobbes, despite authority’s pre-emptive effect. While we have duties, if someone has authority over us, simply because the relevant person or institution has laid these down for us, the authority is rooted in a status that can be lost if the authority does not deliver substantively appealing results. [more]

The orthodox view regarding private law and, more specifically, the law of negligence is that it only deals with our rights and duties. Hence, values and civic maturity play no role in private law reasoning. Further­more, Bernard Williams poses a pugnacious puzzle that arises in regard to civic maturity. If we ask the citizen to ‘take responsibility,’ then the answer demon­strates precisely that the citizen either has not shown maturity or is not mature. A sign of maturity means taking responsibility through our realization and re­flections, not because someone else has told us to do so. Contra Williams, I will argue that tort law advances proleptic thoughts and ways of engag­ing with values so that the citizen inhabits a deliberative-aspirational perspective that reflects civic maturity. However, there is a tension between the idea of civic maturity itself and legal responsibility, and between rights and values or the good. The lecture will concentrate on this tension and will offer a solution to either dissolve or mitigate it. [more]

Accountability is a central concept in both law and moral philosophy. Indeed, accountability can be un­der­stood as the organizing concept around which other legal and moral concepts are organized, such as the authority of law or moral obligations. However, we believe that one aspect of accountability has received less attention than it deserves – the practices of accountability and their (dis)similarity in law and morality. To address this shortcoming, the workshop aims to bring together scholars from law and philoso­phy to explore and discuss the nature, function, and (meta-ethical) implications of accountability practices in both legal and moral contexts. [more]

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