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ORDO SOCIALIS – International Scientific Communication for Social Ethics

Bischof Dr. Franz-Josef Overbeck (Picture: Nicole Cronauge | Bistum Essen)

Culture as a Guiding Notion of Christian Social Ethics

An article by Bishop Dr. Franz-Josef Overbeck

In an article for the magazine “Stimmen der Zeit” Dr. Franz Josef Overbeck, the Bishop of Essen, discusses the role the notion of culture today can still play in the social teachings of the Church.

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Analyses & Arguments: Robot Ethics

An article by Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn

The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Reg.Assn., has published this article by Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Chair of the Theory of Science and Philosophy of Technology, University Stuttgart) in the current issue of “Analyses & Arguments”.

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Our Topics

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Christian social teaching – fundamental social and ethical issues

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Economic, financial and social order – ethics in the worlds of business and finance

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Poverty and wealth – solidarity and shared responsibility

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Politics, human rights, democracy – ethics in politics

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The global world and social justice – the ethics of development, order and peace

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Religion, politics and peace – interreligious peace ethics and social ethics

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Family, education and knowledge – the ethics of different forms of family life

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Environment and technology – the ethics of survival and progress

Our Authors

We are an international network of social scientists, social ethicists and theologians who stand up for a just, peaceful and free world order in the spirit of Catholic Social Teaching and Christian social ethics and do research and publishing in this field.

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