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Technical remarks

I. The independence of the 2 semesters. Consequently not a basic introduction to the whole year, but developing the principles in a different way out of the different materials.

II. Requirements

a. reading?

b. examination

III. The third hour: Recommended but not obligatory.?

IV. Written and oral questions (interruptions and typed questions)

V. Materials to be covered in the about 24 hours

1. Development of the problems on the basis of actual ex- periences.

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Examples ad 1. a] education - initiation, depth dimension

anxiety of meaninglessness

b] philosophy - logical positivism

ad 2.

a] psychology - test, technical therapy, determinism

anxiety of selfloss

b] Politics - suppression of the self by power, by propaganda

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ad 3.

a] Business - the means and end problem

anxiety of emptiness 

b] Techniques - the endless possibilities  The national power as aim

ad. 4. 

a] Moral decision|Ethics| - the longing for authority|The burden of autonomy| doubt

anxiety of guilt

" cynism of loneliness

b] Democratic masses - The destruction of organic life

Social relations - The lack of common symbols / eros and work The desire for security 

ad 5.

a] Economy of harmony - >The interference in|Disharmonies and interference|

b] Religious harmony doubt and cynicism

Politic International realm

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The answer of the arts: The question (and positive philosophy)

The limits of this answer and the quest for religion.

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7. The points of view of analysing artistic works:

a] The sociological - psychological (external)

b] The aesthetic - formalistic (internal)

c] The analytic-religious stylistic (transcending)

8. Analysis of some material

a] Earlier litterature -- contemporary litterature

b] " visual art -- " visual art

c]. Analogies in music and dance.

d]. The special functions of architecture.

Religious-artistic litterature and its

9. Art in the life of historical religions.

a] Its special charact semantic stylistic character

b] Its functional meaning in devotion and cult.

c] Possible and real conflicts with between religious and secular art.

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d] The questions of specificly religious art today.

10. The aesthetic and the cognitive function and their  

a] mutual immanence of the one in the other. mutual participation.

11. Method and subject matter. The imperialism of methods.

b] The correlation of method and subject matter. (imperialism of methods)

12. The old and the new problem of religion and physics, (conflict because of semantic confusions, of lan- guage and contribution of physics in the religious and genuine conflicts and mutual support.

13. The monistic and the dualistic interpretation ways of interpreting life organic life.

13. The problem of life, biologically and psychologically Organism of human life.

14. ... Psychotherapeutic Depth psychology and its dialectical

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relation to religion positive and negative relation to religion.

15. The doctrine of man and the approaches to it. Man's selfintegration and the loss selfloss of man in this world. (Ilias and Odyssee in man's selfinterpretation)

15. The spiritual and the natural

16. Religions and the knowledge of historical affirmations.

17. Religion and philosophy. A theonomous history of philosophy Convergen Divergenses and convergenses in past and present.

18. The philosophical rediscovery of the myth and symbo the language of symbol and myth.

19. The existentialist style of mode contemporary thought thought in the arts and sciences.

20. The situation of our period in the light of a theonomous analysis.

Possibilities:

Reading of Einstein^r's discussion with me.

" of an article on religion and psychotherapy.

" of my lecture in the New School.

" of parts of Syst. III, concerning the organic and the inorganic.

History: Facts - interrelations [valuating], understan- ding, interpreting.