Wie wir miteinander umgehen. Macht, Fairness und soziale Beziehungen - Studium generale RVL

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How we interact with each other determines whether trust grows, cohesion develops, and conflicts can be resolved. At the same time, everyday life shows how sensitive a once achieved social balance is: small misunderstandings can create great tensions, unspoken expectations influence our behavior, and power often operates where we least expect it. This lecture series takes this tension as an occasion to explore fundamental questions of social coexistence. The focus is on the observation that human relationships are always an interplay of closeness and distance, influence and neutrality, cooperation and competition. Every contact—whether in family, work, public life, or politics—is shaped by unspoken rules and tacit agreements. At the same time, these rules are constantly changing in a dynamic society: through new forms of communication, political upheavals, or cultural expectations. This results in a central challenge: how do we shape relationships so that they remain fair, reliable, and sustainable? What forms of power are necessary for community to function—and which quickly turn into injustice or exclusion? Which forms of communication are violent, and which are aimed at equality? And: which norms, values, or standards allow us to evaluate, criticize, or change relationships? The series opens a space where different scientific perspectives come together: philosophy, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, neuroscience, linguistics, law, and economics. The central question is how social relationships arise, succeed, fail, or change and how they can be evaluated—whether between individuals, in more complex groups, or between states and other organizations.