englischThis book discusses digitalization, robotization, and automation of society and of the economy and the use of artificial intelligence from an ethical perspective. After an introduction on the correlation between morality and technology and an assessment of the moral capability of [...]
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englischImmanuel Kant as an interpreter of St Paul. Fichte as an interpreter of the Gospel of John. Hegel as a philosopher on the life of Jesus. This book shows how mysticism, scholasticism and Reformation theology, as well as Christian subject philosophy, Jewish panentheism and liberal [...]
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englischThis book evaluates the effects of trade worker takeovers (WTOs)—the recuperation of workplaces by workers—on trade union power resources. Deploying a mixed methodological framework to identify the prerequisites for successful labour-strengthening WTOs and using an adaptation of the power [...]
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englischGuaranteeing efficient public services of general interest is an essential feature of modern statehood. The physical and organisational design of public services of general interest is currently confronted with megatrends: Demographic change, value dynamics, global migration, climate [...]
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englischThe waiver of inheritance is increasingly being used as an instrument to direct a valuable inheritance. The legal problems arising in this respect are multiplied if a parent declares such a waiver not only for himself but also on behalf of his minor child; especially if the goal of steering [...]
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englisch"Banking is necessary, banks are not." This much-quoted statement by Bill Gates from 1994 can be applied not only in general to the changes in the banking industry since the 2007/2008 financial crisis, but also in particular to the upheavals caused by so-called disruptive technologies. Due [...]
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Mit der Umsetzung der DS-GVOgeht eine Flut an Informationen einher – sei es durch neue Gesetze auf allen Ebenen, zahlreiche Gerichtsentscheidungen oder Praxishinweise der Datenschutzbehörden. Die Dokumentationhilft Ihnen, sich im Dickicht des Datenschutzrechts weiterhin zurechtzufinden. Das Werk [...]
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englischVolume 12 of the Yearbook of Direct Democracy deals with various topics on the development, applica-tion and systemic function of direct democratic instruments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as the respective jurisdiction. On the one hand, it deals with the positions of the [...]
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englischHow does society deal with violations of the drink-drive limit? What role does the legislator play in this? The author analyzes the perception of criminality of drunk cyclists between blood alcohol limits and society.
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englischThe focus is on a possible state obligation to clean up existing plastic pollution of the marine environment. In particular, it is questioned whether protecting the marine environment by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea not only obliges states to take preventive measures [...]
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