Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown
Habermas argued that the state’s duty to protect life outweighed all individual rights. His critics accused him of authoritarianism.
Jürgen Habermas recently argued that the pandemic measures of the German government hadn’t gone far enough. To weigh the state’s duty to protect life against other rights and freedoms was unconstitutional, he warned. In the ensuing controversy, critics accused him of authoritarianism. ...
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