Cooperating projects VEGA
The Social Nature of Normativity as a Starting Point for Explaining the Relationship between Individual and Collective Autonomy
The Social Nature of Normativity as a Starting Point for Explaining the Relationship between Individual and Collective Autonomy , Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava (FLAW) acting as cooperating partner with Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy
Lead researcher for FLAW: doc. JUDr. Branislav Fábry, PhD.
Project No.: 2/0118/24
Implementation: 2024 - 2027
The project focuses on the principles of individual and collective self-determination based on their common postulate - the social nature of normativity. Reflecting on the Socratic question of how to live (well), the project thematises alternatives to a reductionist approach , in which normativity is understood only as the application of 'ready-made' norms, and norms are understood as its constraining prescriptions. The main hypothesis of the project is: A non-reductive conception of norms operates on the basis of the internalized requirement of their consistent justifiability for its creators and receivers , and not independently of it. Using the dynamics of formally explicit rules and informally implicit norms, the project also reflects on the critical limits of such a conception. In doing so, it draws on the conflictuality of the principles of individual and collective self-determination in the context of human rights, given in tension of deontological and utilitarian aproach to normativity.
Environmental democracy and environmental justice in the legal order of the Slovak Republic in the 21st century
Environmental democracy and environmental justice in the legal order of the Slovak Republic in the 21st century, Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava (FLAW) acting as cooperating partner with Právnickou fakultou Trnavskej univerzity
Lead researcher for FLAW: JUDr. Matúš Michalovič, PhD.
Project No.: 1/0625/25
Implementation: 2025 - 2028
The reality of climate change and its consequences, which humanity feels more and more strongly, creates an increasingly urgent demand for environmental protection. The global trend of adopting environmental rights within the constitutional documents of individual sovereign states is largely considered a positive development for both human rights and the environment. The impact of environmental rights must be systematically evaluated. Their strengthening (access to environmental information, participation in decision-making processes and access to justice) provides fertile ground for the analysis of how environmental rights are directly related to the conditions necessary for a functioning democracy. In this context, the research will focus on the analysis of the legal regulation of the mentioned guarantees and, how they create space for the implementation of environmental justice and democracy in the Slovak Republic in the 21st century.
Humans as a Cosmic Phenomenon from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Humans as a Cosmic Phenomenon from a Multidisciplinary Perspective, Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava (FLAW) acting as cooperating partner with Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
Lead researcher for FLAW: prof. JUDr. Marek Števček, DrSc.
Project No.: 1/0089/25
Implementation: 2025 – 2028
Through space exploration, humanity penetrates beyond the boundaries of its planet, appropriating and transforming the cosmic space, both near and far. Homo sapiens is becoming an interplanetary species. This aspect of humanity requires a new philosophical view on human nature, incorporating insights from astrophysics and astrobiology. The expansion of life's habitat beyond Earth reopens philosophical, ethical, and legal dilemmas. The aim of the project is to examine how the space environment transforms humans and vice versa, as well as to evaluate the positive and negative impacts of space research on the future of humanity. Within the scope of terrestrial activities, the transforming activity of humans is considered so significant that this period is currently referred to as the anthropocene era. In connection with humanity's more expansive activities in space, one can analogously speak of the onset of the 'cosmoanthropocene' era and the understanding of humans as a cosmic phenomenon.