16 February 2022
Hegel on Anti-Vaxxers and Making Peace with the Law
Recently, the German Parliament debated the question whether to mandate general inoculation. The supreme irony of this debate is that the minister of health invoked Hegel to argue in favour of a mandate. The irony does not lie in Hegel’s stance regarding mandatory vaccination – which he favoured much more explicitly than Lauterbach’s quotation suggested – but in the role that this government is attributing to law and politics. Continue reading >>
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