The Order of Liberty and Co-operation in Risk Society

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380020
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
• Principal Investigator: NOZAKI Akiko 京都薬科大学, 薬学部, 教授 (50382370)
• Research Collaborator: Lütge Christoph ミュンヘン工科大学, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: リスク / 非自律的個人 / 安全・安心 / リバタリアン・パターナリズム / 不安 / 自由

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study considered the possibility of a social theory that assumes the existence of non-autonomous individuals who are not the autonomous individuals supposed by liberalism, as the group growing in size within a risk society. The study focuses on risk with an unknown occurrence ratio. For this study, we examined the principles of justice used by Global Justice and Bioethics; Belmont Report and rules on research of reproductive cells that will impact future generations. Based on an examination of these actual issues, the study also explored the possibility and theory of rules through the systematic framework provided by Libertarian Paternalism. In designing a system for risk amidst a risk society premised upon rational, autonomous human beings and irrational, non-autonomous human beings, the study inquired into the possibility of structuring a best-matching theory to logically support its rules.
In our next stage, we should focus on collectivity and gregariousness.

Free Research Field

法哲学