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  • Eros as Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades I and Symposium

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    This thesis examines the interrelation between desire, care, self-knowledge, love, and political power in Plato’s Alcibiades I. It argues for the central role of eros as a transformative force enabling self-knowledge and, consequently, authentic care for others. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of epimeleia heautou (care of the self) as a spiritual practice, the study investigates

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  • Learning by Research – A First Résumé. Forschendes Lernen – eine erste Bilanz

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    Today, many decisions in politics and economy rely on statistics, scientific reports and market research. However, how reliable are those results of research? This issue, we are able to assess best if we have performed research ourselves. On this note, learning by research should revolutionize academic teaching: Learning by self-contained and independent research. This principle,

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  • A Two-Path Process Model of Invention: Conclusions from six years of Research with independent Inventors

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    This paper introduces a two-path model of the invention that comprises two processes: a long-term, idea-driven path, and a short-term, problem-solving path. The model focuses on individual inventors and includes the success factors for the invention that are known from the literature. The model resumes the line of research in independent inventors and responses to

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  • More Than Welcome: A Berlin Call for University Ethics

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    Democracy is under attack, as are human rights outside and inside the academy, and scholars are at risk. The keynote proposes ethics that calls on universities to truly welcome these scholars, with more than a benevolent gesture. Instead, the university must be the space for a truly cosmopolitan “education” via exchange among equals – which

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