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Unser Zusammenleben basiert auf normativen Ordnungen. Auch die Demokratie ist eine solche Ordnung. Ihre Regeln sind nicht statisch, sie können verändert, angepasst werden. Doch was, wenn die Menschen der Demokratie nicht mehr vertrauen? Darüber sprach »Forschung Frankfurt« mit Rainer Forst, Professor für politische Philosophie an der Goethe-Universität.
This paper challenges widespread assumptions in trust research according to which trust and conflict are opposing terms or where trust is generally seen as a value. Rather, it argues that trust is only valuable if properly justified, and it places such justifications in contexts of social and political conflict. For these purposes, the paper suggests a distinction between a general concept and various conceptions of trust, and it defines the concept as a four-place one. With regard to the justification of trust, a distinction between internal and full justification is introduced, and the justification of trust is linked to relations of justification between trusters and trusted. Finally, trust in conflict(s) emerges were such relations exist among the parties of a conflict, often by way of institutional mediation.
Sobre la libertad política
(1998)
Este artículo presenta un argumento en favor de un concepción intersubjetivista de la libertad política constituida por cinco diferentes nociones de autonomía: moral, ética, legal, política y social. Más allá de las nociones estrictamente liberales o comunitarias, negativas o positivas, el concepto de libertad política incluye todas aquellas libertades que los ciudadanos, en tanto continentes y usuarios autónomos de la libertad, pueden conceder y garantizar de forma recíproca y general. Así, en la base de este concepto reposa un principio de justiticación moral y política.
Very few people doubt that it is a fundamental demand of justice that members of legal-political normative orders ought to have legal rights that define their basic standing as subjects of such an order. But when it comes to the concrete understanding of such rights, debates abound. What is the nature of these rights – are they an expression of the sovereign will of individuals, or are they based on important human interests? How should these rights be justified – do they have a particular moral ground, and if so, only one or many?
"Toleranz kommt vor Glückseligkeit" : eine Zeitreise mit der Tugend des gegenseitigen Respekts
(2016)
Toleranz ist gerade da nötig, wo sie besonders schwerfällt. Das war schon vor gut 300 Jahren so, als Denker wie der französische Philosoph Pierre Bayle in Zeiten religiöser Auseinandersetzungen den Grundstein für ein fortschrittliches Toleranz-Verständnis legten. Warum der Begriff gerade heute wieder Konjunktur hat und wie umstritten er noch immer ist, erläutert der politische Philosoph Rainer Forst im Gespräch mit Bernd Frye.
Mit den politischen Philosophen Darrel Moellendorf, der neu aus San Diego an die Goethe-Universität berufen worden ist, und Rainer Forst, Co-Sprecher des Frankfurter Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" und in diesem Wintersemester Gastprofessor an der New York University, sprachen Bernd Frye, Pressereferent des Clusters, und Ulrike Jaspers, Redakteurin von Forschung Frankfurt.
Noumenal Power
(2014)
In political or social philosophy, we speak about power all the time. Yet the meaning of this important concept is rarely made explicit, especially in the context of normative discussions. But as with many other concepts, once one considers it more closely, fundamental problems arise, such as whether a power relation is necessarily a relation of subordination and domination. In the following, I suggest a novel understanding of what power is and what it means to exercise it.
Os limites da tolerância
(2009)
Este artigo apresenta os elementos constitutivos do conceito de tolerância e discute duas concepções diferentes do termo, como permissão e como respeito moral, que expressam modos diversos de demarcar os limites da tolerância. A tolerância é apresentada como um conceito que, para ganhar algum conteúdo, depende normativamente de um direito à justificação baseado na idéia de um uso público da razão segundo o qual as práticas e as instituições político-jurídicas que determinam a vida social dos cidadãos devem ser justificáveis à luz de normas que eles não podem recíproca e genericamente rejeitar.
The title I have chosen seems to signal a tension, even a contradiction, in a number of respects. Democracy appears to be a form of political organisation and government in which, through general and public participatory procedures, a sufficiently legitimate political will is formed which acquires the force of law. Justice, by contrast, appears to be a value external to this context which is not so much linked to procedures of “input” or “throughput” legitimation but is understood instead as an output- or outcome-oriented concept. At times, justice is even understood as an otherworldly idea which, when transported into the Platonic cave, merely causes trouble and ends up as an undemocratic elite project. In methodological terms, too, this difference is sometimes signalled in terms of a contrast between a form of “worldly” political thought and “abstract” and otherworldly philosophical reflection on justice. In my view, we are bound to talk past the issues to be discussed under the heading “transnational justice and democracy” unless we first root out false dichotomies such as the ones mentioned. My thesis will be that justice must be “secularised” or “grounded” both with regard to how we understand it and to its application to relations beyond the state.