«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an employee stood in front of the locked door and indicated that the auditorium was still occupied. After a little waiting, I kindly said that our schedule did not allow for...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
Who still owns the truth today? The world has become incredibly complex in the last 100 years. The longing for...
Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones. In their differences in harmony with all morning or evening singers of the sunlight sphere. This is also the case with human languages, worldviews, teachings of being, and spiritual foundations....
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years...
Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have to learn to live with the fear of defeat, but there is also defeating fear. Perhaps this is the ‘mother of all defeats,’ as it creates the danger that your...
500,000 people have looked at Caroline Kube’s fingers showing how to crochet a potholder with a waffle pattern. These half-million...
The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in...
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