Karl Jasper's lectures on questions of time
The Karl Jaspers lectures on questions of time were initiated in the spring of 1990 by Rudolf zur Lippe in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Foundation at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Rüdiger Schmidt (since 2001 Schmidt-Grépály ), whose office is now held by Reinhard Schulz, was appointed the first managing director . Despite a concept that has changed slightly since 1994, the focus of the event is the transcultural, communicative exchange on questions of the time. The annual event, included in the World Decade of Cultures by UNESCO, looks back in particular on philosophical celebrities such as Jürgen Habermas . Since 1997, an award ceremony for young scientists has also been part of the conception. As a former trademark, Peter Vöge (Print & Learn Oldenburg), together with Prinz zur Lippe and Rüdiger Schmidt, designed the stone from a collection at the Lippes that rotates from event to event. A word from the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers, who was born in Oldenburg , was proclaimed as the main idea behind the lectures :
- “Freedom depends on the freedom of all others; therefore political freedom does not succeed as a certain duration of conditions - freedom is dependent on the perfection of truth, but truth is in many ways and in each of its forms in motion. "
Large international colloquiums with public lectures and seminars have been held since the beginning, for example with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Hans-Georg Gadamer and Lew Kopelew . Ivan Illich was appointed as the first visiting professor in 1990/91 . He was followed in terms of cultural exchange and a. the Indian philosopher and sociologist Jit Pal Singh Uberoi, the African philosopher Marcel Tshiamalenga Ntumba, the Chilean biologist and philosopher Humberto Maturana and the Swiss philosopher Jeanne Hersch . Furthermore, salon talks took place in the Hude manor house in the first few years - with “by no means only specialist philosophers, but also sculptors, musicians, psychologists”. "Guaranteed fear-free and stress-free discussions with philosophers" made possible the breakfast talks set up by Rüdiger Schmidt - the later founder of the Friedrich Nietzsche College in Weimar - which were reserved exclusively for the students and which resulted in an informal exchange with the speakers outside of the academic world Company: "There is something that is almost forgotten in scientific operations - but not only there, an attitude that makes common questions, learning and working possible in the first place."
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Nord-West-Zeitung of November 12, 1991
- ↑ http://www.philosophie.uni-oldenburg.de/download/Institut_fuer_Philosophie/Eingabe_DIN_lang.pdf
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 19, 1992
- ^ TAZ of July 17, 1992
- ^ The time of October 18, 1991
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 17, 1991
- ^ Rüdiger Schmidt: Review. In: Karl Jaspers lectures on questions of time. Documentation. Typesetting and design: Print & Learn Oldenburg, December 1992.