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This 1968 lecture, transcript edited by Alexander Bazelow, presents a wide-ranging dialogue between Heinrich Blücher and students addressing the political, moral, and philosophical crises of the modern world. Framed as a midterm discussion, the lecture distinguishes between solvable problems and enduring human conflicts, emphasizing the limits of scientific thinking and the necessity of philosophical mediation. Through examples drawn from mathematics, architecture, politics, art, and classical philosophy, Blücher explores freedom, responsibility, friendship, education, and the formation of personality. Engaging directly with student questions, he defends the Socratic model of philosophizing as a communal, dialogical practice essential for resisting nihilism, ideological thinking, and political violence. The lecture affirms philosophy as an active, lifelong task through which individuals become free, responsible personalities capable of judgment in an unstable world.
Publication Date
1968
Recommended Citation
Blücher, Heinrich, "13-XIII. A Dialogue With Students (1968)" (1968). Bazelow Transcripts. 13.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/blucher-bazelow-transcripts/13