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ORDO SOCIALIS – International Scientific Communication for Social Ethics

Social ethics in a Time of Pandemic

Dennis Gonzales from the St. Vincent School of Theology Quezon City (Metro-Manila) and Thomas Kohler from the Boston College Law School report on the COVID-19-pandemic in the Philippines and the USA.

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Social Market Economy – renewing ecologically

Due to climate change an ecological renewal of the economic system is necessary. Arnd Küppers thinks that the German Social Market Economy could offer a blueprint.

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Prof. Dr. Elmar Nass. Foto: Amany F. Ramadan, CC BY-SA 4.0

Christian Leadership Ethics

Is there a specific kind of Christian leadership ethics in business? An essay by Elmar Nass and Ellen Kreuer

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The different dimensions of sustainability

An article by Prof. Dr. Markus Vogt

Sustainability is a key concept in the project of ecological transformation of economy and society. A short introduction in the concept and the current main challenges.

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Peacemaking in East Asia

An article by Ms. Dr. HyunJu Shim

Ms. Dr. HyunJu Shim, senior researcher at the Institute for Life and Culture at the Sogang University in Seoul (South Korea) has published an essay on Ahn Junggeun’s vision for peace and parallels with peace ethics in Catholic social teaching.

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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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„If Catholic Social Teaching shall contribute efficiently to the shaping of the global order, it must find worldwide spreading. I therefore support the work of Ordo socialis.“
—Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Munich