Jean-Pol Martin

From the Pursuit of Control to Democratic Cooperation: Understanding and Self-Discipline in the New Human Rights Framework

This conceptual working paper examines how the pursuit of control can be redirected from domination toward democratic cooperation within Jean-Pol Martin’s New Human Rights (NMR) framework. Its central hypothesis is that reflection can reveal how restricting others’ agency also su...

Worldviews, Knowledge and Power: From the History of Philosophy to the Right to Think

This conceptual working paper examines how worldviews shape the organization of knowledge, authority and participation. It reconstructs Jean-Pol Martin’s 2022 essay “Neue Menschenrechte. Artikel 1 (das Recht auf Denken)” and develops its connection between philosophical tradition...

Generative AI and the Redistribution of Epistemic Power - From Institutional Dependence to Individual Truth-Testing Capacity

Generative artificial intelligence is commonly discussed as a technology for text production, information retrieval, automation, and decision support. This article proposes a broader interpretation: generative AI may contribute to a redistribution of epistemic power. The ability...

The Theoretical Foundations of Learning by Teaching: Two Foundational Papers from 1986 and 1988

This working paper revisits two foundational publications by Jean-Pol Martin: Für eine Übernahme von Lehrfunktionen durch Schüler (1986) and Schüler in komplexen Lernumwelten (1988). Read together, the two papers reveal that Learning by Teaching was conceived from the outset as m...

The Theoretical Foundations of Learning by Teaching: Two Foundational Papers from 1986 and 1988

This working paper revisits two foundational publications by Jean-Pol Martin: Für eine Übernahme von Lehrfunktionen durch Schüler (1986) and Schüler in komplexen Lernumwelten (1988). Read together, the two papers reveal that Learning by Teaching was conceived from the outset as m...

The Right to Think as the Foundation of the New Human Rights

In 2020, Jean-Pol Martin proposed a re-foundation and reformulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Instead of deriving human rights from metaphysics, religion, natural law, or idealistic philosophical anthropology, the model grounds them exclusively in observable h...