John Stuart Mill Institute

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The John Stuart Mill Institute is an association associated with liberalism in Heidelberg . The research institute was founded in 2009 by Ulrike Ackermann and is named after the English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill .

aims

The aim of the John Stuart Mill Institute is to scientifically research the enforcement and threats to freedom in the past and present and its cultural conditions. The institute ties in with the ideas of the liberal thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries and sees its civil society task in bringing to mind, cultivating, developing and disseminating the liberal philosophy of freedom. The focus is on the interactions between political, economic and personal freedom.

Focus

  • Research project in the field of empirical freedom research and the history of ideas
  • Studies on the restriction or granting of freedom and civil rights in Germany and in international comparison
  • Congresses, conferences, symposiums, meetings, panels, disputes, workshops and discussion events
  • Creation, promotion and dissemination of publications and series on freedom research
  • Edition and publication of texts by liberal thinkers from the entire spectrum of liberalism as well as on topics of economic, political and individual freedom
  • Establishing and maintaining national and international collaborations and interdisciplinary networks in research, culture, science and civil society

Since 2011 the institute has published the "Freedom Index Germany" annually. With the claim to be able to empirically clarify the relationship of the German population to freedom by means of a representative survey of the population and a quantitative content analysis of leading print media as scientific instruments, this study is now always published in late summer. In addition, a thematic focus is set in each case: 2013 Europe , 2014 the digital revolution, 2015 Western values and 2016 the Western lifestyle .

structure

The social scientist Ulrike Ackermann is the director and founder . From 2008 to 2014 she held the professorship with a focus on freedom research and teaching at the SRH University of Heidelberg .

The researcher and managing director is the cultural scientist Hans Jörg Schmidt.

The scientific advisory board includes:

  • Detmar Doering (philosopher and historian, head of the Liberal Institute of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Potsdam)
  • Dominik Geppert (Chair for Modern History, University of Bonn)
  • Karen Horn (economist and publicist, Zurich)
  • Friedhelm Hufen (lawyer, judge at the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate a. D., University of Mainz)
  • Robert Nef (lawyer, St. Gallen / President of the Board of Trustees of the Liberal Institute Zurich)
  • Ton Nijhuis (Director of the Germany Institute, Amsterdam)
  • Thomas Petersen (social scientist, Institute for Demoscopy Allensbach)
  • Gerhard Schulze (sociologist, University of Bamberg)
  • Edgar Wolfrum (contemporary historian, Center for European History and Cultural Studies, Heidelberg University)
  • Michael Zöller (Political Scientist, Council on Public Policy, University of Bayreuth)

financing

The association lives on donations; the institute names the following as "substantial sponsors":

Publications

The institute has published the following publications:

  • Freedom in crisis? The value of economic, political and individual freedom . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-934157-98-9 .
  • Freedom Index Germany 2011 . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-941743-19-9 .
  • John Stuart Mill : Freedom and Equal Rights (= Selected Works Volume 1). Murmann, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-177-4 .
  • John Stuart Mill: Freedom and Equal Rights (= Selected Works Volume 2). Murmann, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86774-178-1 .
  • Freedom Index Germany 2012 . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-941743-37-3 .
  • In the wake of the internet. Public and private in the digital age . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-941743-35-9 .
  • Freedom Index Germany 2013 . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-941743-39-7 .
  • John Stuart Mill: Individual, Morality and Society (= Selected Works. Volume 3.1). Murmann, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-198-9 .
  • Freedom Index Germany 2014 . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-941743-45-8 .
  • Self-determination or external determination? Social life on the internet . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-941743-55-7 .
  • John Stuart Mill: Freedom, progress and the tasks of the state (= selected works. Volume 3.2). Murmann, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86774-199-6 .
  • Freedom Index Germany 2015 . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-941743-57-1 .
  • Pleasure - asceticism - morality. About the paternalization of the good life . Humanities Online, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-941743-59-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversation with Ernst A. Grandits: Freedom, Equality, Tolerance! In: 3sat Kulturzeit , November 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Daniel Bräuer: God can defend himself! In: Rhein Neckar Zeitung , June 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Dorothea Siems: All of this should be forbidden! In: Die Welt , January 25, 2010.
  4. ↑ Florian Püschel: In the wake of the Internet! In: Hsozkult , November 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ Rolf Löchel: When authors are authors In: literaturkritik.de , November 2012.
  6. ↑ Freedom Index . In: www.mill-institut.de. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Erich Weede: Freedom II. The John Stuart Mill Institute introduces itself. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 24, 2011.