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Home
Where am I rooted?
Home can provide comfort and a solid foundation. Rooting gives the strength to break out, go beyond the immediate given, and make one’s own life fruitful.
Content
Anthropology
What is the human?
The Question
The question of the human
Immanuel Kant traces the questions “What can I know?”, “What should I do?”, and “What may I hope?” back to a fourth question: “What is the human?” In it, for him, the fundamental questions of philosophy are bundled together. For it is always the human who perceives, acts, hopes, and asks about his place in the world.
The project takes up this fundamental question. It examines what determines human life, what humans need, and what connects them across times, cultures and ways of life.
The Systematics
From the ground beneath our feet to beyond the head
The twelve topics are organised around the human body. The journey starts beneath the feet with home and moves through safety, pleasure, body and work to the heart and one’s own voice. Self‑knowledge, dream and intuition open the space of consciousness. Wholeness and cosmos finally open the view beyond the individual human.
The chakras serve as a vivid analogy and a bodily orientation system. On this basis, human basic needs and fundamental dimensions of human existence are made concrete, interconnected and philosophically experiential.
Approaches and Methods
Twelve philosophical walks
The systematics can be explored in various ways: through books and web courses, lectures, readings, exhibitions, seminars, conversations and other formats. A particular approach is the philosophical walk. It combines physical movement, nature experience, perception and shared thinking.
In the book, this approach is realised in twelve walks through the philosopher’s garden on the Upper Danube. Each walk begins with a photograph and a guiding word. A portrait and a philosophical impulse provide inspiration. Questions and deepening offers on two levels enable the topic to be integrated into one’s own thinking and life. Optional music opens an additional resonant space.
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Safety
What gives me support?
People seek protection, reliability and trust. The topic leads to the question of which securities truly support and how safety, freedom and spiritual trust can work together.
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Pleasure
How do I handle my life energy?
In spring the vitality of nature emerges openly. Pleasure, sexuality and enjoyment also belong to the liveliness of the human. A good balance connects joy, freedom and responsibility.
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Body
What measure does the human carry within?
The body carries our life and makes us visible in the world. Its form leads to the question of dignity, individuality and a human measure that can also shape art and living spaces.
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Work
What makes my activity meaningful?
Work can enable community, recognition, development and a contribution to the well‑being of others. External order and inner order in flow help to shape it meaningfully and embed it in a whole life.
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Unity of all being
Where do I experience connectedness?
Mystics of various times and religions report experiences of unity. Those who see themselves as a single being and at the same time as part of a larger whole can perceive nature, community and responsibility anew.
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Authenticity
How do I become the human I can be?
Every human grows within relationships, roles and expectations. Authenticity opens a space where one’s own possibilities can be perceived, tested and responsibly shaped.
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Self‑knowledge
Who am I?
Self‑knowledge requires attention and a degree of withdrawal. External and internal places of rest can help to see one’s own life more clearly and act from that insight.
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Dream
Which images speak within me?
Dreams create their own, rather receptive experiential space. Those who give them attention can discover hidden questions, inner images and creative possibilities.
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Intuition
Which inner impulses can I trust?
Intuition is a human ability that can develop and be refined. Like climbing a tower, distance can open up a different perspective and lead to surprisingly clear insights.
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Wholeness
How do the parts fit together?
Analytical thinking uncovers details. Holistic and systemic perspectives reveal their relationships and consequences. In combination, a more comprehensive understanding emerges.
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Cosmos
In what larger context do I exist?
Humans are part of a cosmic process that they help shape within their possibilities. Nature, co‑creatures and the cosmos combine wonder and spirituality with ecological responsibility.
Pursue the question further
If you wish to delve deeper into the question ‘What is the human being?’, you will find a range of offerings. Books and the upcoming web course enable an independent exploration. Events provide a space for shared experience, questions and philosophical discussion.