Josef Bordat

Josef Bordat, who was born in 1972 and lives in Berlin, began his academic career in Industrial Engineering (DI, 2000) and Philosophy (MA, 2004). He took his PhD in Philosophy (Dr. phil., 2006) at the Technical University of Berlin. He has lectured in Berlin and in Arequipa, Peru. He is published in different areas of philosophical and sociological research, especially on Bartolomé de Las Casas, Ethics, Globalisation, Human Rights and International Public Law. In his Weblog Jobo72 he publishes frequently different kinds of articles (Essays, Reviews, Reports, Satires, Poems) on several topics (Religion, Christianity, Ethics, Theology, Politics, Football, Catholic Church). Josef Bordat is Catholic, Pro Life, married and deeply engaged in Social Media


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Latest Articles By Josef Bordat
Does the Soul Exist?
Does the Soul Exist?
Is there a consciousness that is not completely reducible to brain-activity? Are there mental states that are not identical with physical mechanisms? In other words: Is there a soul within our body?
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Catholic Church: South Korea as a model for Europe
Catholic Church: South Korea as a model for Europe
The Church in Europe is in a deep crisis. Parishes are losing members, Sunday's mass-attendance is down to 10 percent (at least in Germany). The latest figures from Germany show the ongoing decline. While Church in whole Europe is declining, according to the numbers concerning membership, priests, attendance in Holy Mass, Catholic Church in the Republic of Korea is growing
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Climate Change. An Issue for Catholics
Climate Change. An Issue for Catholics
The earth in some regions is getting hotter and dryer, while in others storm and heavy rain is destroying peoples lifes, forcing them to leave and migrate. There is no daubt about this fact. But at the same time there can be observed a certain indifference towards ecological topics as coping with climate change among Catholics.
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Constitution and Christianity
Constitution and Christianity
On this year’s May 23rd Germany celebrates the 70th anniversary of its constitution, the so called “Grundgesetz”, marking the foundation of the Federal Republic. Because of this important date I wrote a book that has a focus on the Christian roots of the German constitution.
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Protecting Human Rights today
Protecting Human Rights today
The protection of human rights in our globalized world is the most important task for both individual states and the international community of states, that is, the United Nations, which is the political body of human society. Nevertheless, the protection of human rights and established state sovereignty, the two basic principles of international public law for the last 70 years
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On Dragons, Roses and Books. Catalonia celebrates Sant Jordi
On Dragons, Roses and Books. Catalonia celebrates Sant Jordi
Sant Jordi (St. George), a martyr from the 3rd century, is known above all by the legend of his fight against a dragon, told since the 12th century in different variations within poems and songs.
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Humanitarian Interventions and the International Public Law: A Closer Look on the Responsibility To Protect-Doctrine (R2P)
Humanitarian Interventions and the International Public Law: A Closer Look on the Responsibility To Protect-Doctrine (R2P)
In the debate about the question if, when and how humanitarian interventions can afford peace military action is ambitionally taken into consideration due to cases of failed or rogue states in which ethnic conflict let to violence and the harm of human rights.
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A Present That May Change the Presentee's Future
A Present That May Change the Presentee's Future
Searching for last-minute Christmas presents your friends will like? So, what about a book?! "Great idea!“ I agree! Next point of interest: What kind of book should it be?
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Witch Hunt. Fakes and Facts
Witch Hunt. Fakes and Facts
One of the classics concerning anticlerical stereotypes is the so-called “witch hunt”, that the Church supposedly operated in the “Middle Ages” against allegedly “wise women” and with “millions of victims”. It is time to bring into discussion newer research results, which stand in sharp contrast to this opinion
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So-called "church-sins" reconsidered
So-called "church-sins" reconsidered
How to handle anti-catholic offenses? What to say if you, as a faithful Catholic, are blamed for inquisition, witch-hunt, crusades, wars, oppression of minorities and so on? Thinking about this question for more than five years, I wrote a book on my experiences in discussions about the Catholic Church and Christianity, faith and religion.
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New war and just war
New war and just war
After the collapse of the bipolar world order (1989/91), many military conflicts broke out in the destabilized and deeply changing world, mostly with an ethnical or islamist background. Due to this fact the focus within the concept of war has changed from the aggression of sovereign states to military violence,
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The New Berlin Wall
The New Berlin Wall
Berlin is facing its most serious threat since the rise of the Berlin Wall in 1961: the division of society by an invisible wall built with the bricks of "religious fundamentalism" and "cultural segregation." That is, by the existence of an Islamic parallel society, run by its own rules and manners.
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The Christian Roots of Human Dignity
The Christian Roots of Human Dignity
In order to respect every human being in its own personality as a person with inalienable rights one needs a set of ethical values as an absolute foundation to which reference is possible when needed. This kind of absolute anthropological postulate stands contrary to the relativism in human rights that makes human dignity a value determined by utilitarian ideas of the human being.
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Respect! The Intercultural Dialogue by applying the Golden Rule
Respect! The Intercultural Dialogue by applying the Golden Rule
There is need for intercultural dialogue in the world today. The question is: How could it be realized, especially in a global society of different cultures, of particular political ideas and pluralistic religious views? One hint we can find is within the Golden Rule: mutual respect.
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Migration
Migration
In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the island of Guanahani, which he named “San Salvador”. Columbus and his crew were accepted enthusiastically by the natives. Each year ten thousands of refugees from Africa reach the Canary Islands. They survived the risky crossing, which seems as dangerous as the crossing of the conquistadors 500 years ago.
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