Elke Mack

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Elke Mack (born November 21, 1964 ) is a German ethicist , holds a habilitation in theology and has a doctorate in economics . She is a university professor for Christian social science and social ethics at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt .

Scientific career

Elke Mack studied from 1984 to 1994 Catholic theology , philosophy and economics at the University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt am Main , at the University of California, Berkeley ( USA ) (one year 1986-87) and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She received her doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation in business ethics at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt as Dr. rer. pole.

As a policy adviser in the planning staff of Federal President Roman Herzog , she worked from 1995 to 1997 in the Federal President's Office in Bonn and Berlin in the areas of economics, ethics and social policy. From 1997 to 2001 she was the scientific director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at the University of Bonn .

She completed her habilitation in Catholic theology in the field of Christian social ethics in 2001 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In the winter semester of 2001, she received a substitute professorship for Christian social sciences at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt . A year later she accepted an endowed professorship for economic and corporate ethics at the University of Kassel .

Since 2003 Elke Mack has held the professorship for Christian social science and social ethics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt.

Elke Mack is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Theologie der Gegenwart . She is also a liaison professor of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Hanns Seidel Foundation for Thuringia and continues to be a member of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich. She volunteers for SOLWODI eV Germany as well as for various other church and social projects.

Privately, she lives with her husband and children in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm near Munich.

research

Elke Mack's ethical focus is on basic questions of social ethics, theories of justice , global ethics with a focus on poverty reduction , political ethics , business ethics (compatibility of market economy and ecology) and migration ethics (DFG project, future of the welfare state). She is primarily concerned with ethical dilemmas that arise when structural justice requirements contradict individual human rights claims.

Her approach to Christian social ethics is shaped by the integration of a consensus paradigm based on justice theory into the tradition of Christian social ethics. It assumes that traditional Christian approaches must be reformed and expanded through a pluralism-compatible ethics of global norms (a Christian theory of justice).

A special field of her research is the investigation of global human rights violations by women, which are mainly in the field of sexual abuse (Theologie der Gegenwart 3/2019).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • A Christian Theory of Justice, Baden-Baden 2017.
  • A Christian Theory of Justice. The turn to an ethics capable of pluralism with a global reach. Baden-Baden 2015.
  • Absolute Poverty and Global Justice. Empirical Data, Moral Theories, Initiatives (ed. Together with Michael Schramm / Stephan Klasen / Thomas Pogge ), London 2009.
  • Families in crisis. Suggested solutions for Christian social ethics, Munich 2005.
  • Justice and good life. Christian ethics in political discourse, Paderborn / Munich 2002.
  • Economic rationality. Basis of an interdisciplinary business ethics ?, Berlin 1994.
Essays
  • “New responsibility for the weak” - Elke Mack on the corona crisis as an ethical challenge (theologie-aktuell.uni-erfurt.de/responsibility-fur-die-schwachen-mack)
  • together with Lea Ackermann: Liberal prostitution legislation in Germany - a legal ethical analysis (https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/user-docs/Sozialethik/Dokumente/MackAckermannProstitution.pdf, 2019)
  • Global violence against women. Sexual abuse, prostitution and human trafficking, in: Theologie der Gegenwart 62 (3/2019), pp. 199–213.
  • Prostitution as a human rights problem, in: Theologie der Gegenwart 57 (1/2014), 2–15.
  • together with Martin Lampert: What does the future of the welfare state look like? A social ethics discussion paper, in: JCSW 54 (2013), 275–296.
  • Poverty in the light of the encyclical 'Caritas in Veritate', in: Caritas in Veritate. Catholic Social Doctrine in the Age of Globalization, ed. by Jörg Althammer. Berlin 2013, 159–172.
  • Natural law change to the ethics of justice. Approach of a Christian ethics capable of pluralism, in: Theologische Ethik im Pluralismus (studies on theological ethics), ed. by Konrad Hilpert. Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2012, 209–228.
  • Vaticanum II - The gate to a modern Christian ethic is opened, in: The Easter added value in view. Theological contributions to a church in transition (EThSchr 42), ed. by Benedikt Kranemann / Maria Widl. Würzburg 2012, 127–141.
  • Pluralism and Christian Ethics? Opposites or compatibility, in: Theologie der Gegenwart 54 (4/2011), 308–311.
  • Efficiency and limits of economic morality. Extension by a contractualistic institutional and legal ethics, in: Yearbook for Law and Ethics 18, ed. by B. Sharon Byrd / Joachim Hruschka, Jan C. Joerden. Berlin 2010, 105–118.
  • together with Martin Lampert: Social Security. KAS online portal on political culture in Germany and Italy. Rome 2010.
  • Financial crisis - an end to responsibility for the poor ?, in: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift 13 (2009), 17–25 (together with Michael Hartlieb).
  • Subsidiary and activating basic income - an alternative to the existing system in Germany, in: Roman Herzog Institute eV (ed.), Unconditional Basic Income. A perspective for the social market economy? Controversial questions about a controversial (social) concept of tomorrow, Munich 2008, 17–25.
  • Work as participation law, in: Amos. Shaping society justly 1 (1/2007), 11–17.
  • Parental loyalty and external care. How can the welfare of children and the interests of young mothers and women be brought into balance ?, in: Amos. Shaping society justly 1 (2/2007), 3–10 (together with Marion Bayerl).
  • A Theory of Global Justice Focussing on Absolute Poverty, in: Karl Homann / Peter Koslowski / Christoph Lütge (eds.), Globalization and Business Ethics, Aldershot / London 2007, 145–158.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Link to the journal Theologie der Gegenwart
  3. ↑ Link to SOLWODI eV
  4. ↑ See curriculum vitae
  5. ↑ Mack, Elke .: A Christian theory of justice . Nomos, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1975-4 ( worldcat.org [accessed November 20, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Mack, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and university professor, professor of Christian social teaching
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1964