Debt relationships are relationships of obligations. The paper analyses debt relationships in civil law and economic ethics as well as in theology. It starts from the German word for debt and guilt relationships Schuldverhältnisse. The German term Schuld does not distinguish between debt and...

Two concepts of virtual reality are competing in the cyber world, virtual reality as total adaptability and virtual reality as the simulation of possible worlds. Virtuality as adaptability in industrial production leads to a closer consideration of individual con-sumer demand and to de-massified...

Intergenerational justice arises from the fact that generations stand towards each other in a relationship of obligation. Children owe their existence to their parents, and therefore the continuation of their own existence in children of the next generation. Self interest demands the constant...

The idea of public interest has been criticized by economic theory as being naïve in its believe that politicians could anticipate something like the public interest. Public Choice theory has shown that politicians are as self-interested as other acting persons. The paper examines this...

The Social Market Economy has been seen as a third path between capitalism and socialism shaped by the principle of solidarity. The rhetoric of the third way can be mere mediation as indecisiveness or the consequence of a third conception of the economic order. Solidarism and personalism as the...

The origin of evil is one of the great puzzles of philosophy and theology. Evil is no objective of the world order since there can be no objective to fail to meet an objective. To assume that evil is part of the world order would, however, imply to assume that there is an objective to fail an...