
Episode 66: Michael Hüther on Science, Myth, and the Place of the Truth at the University
The Telos Press Podcast
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The Freedom of Teaching Does Not Release One From Loyalty to the Constitution
In this freedom of the scientists there is an absolute freedom from any interference from public authority. There's also only understandable from the German historical background as I said in the early 1930s university more or less were right, the politics of the right oriented. So on the one hand we have these absolute freedom of science, you know the other hand it's quite clear that the freedom of teaching does not release one from loyalty to the constitution. This is a setting which has to be interpreted, has to be used every time. It's a given the white room from a nover for acting in the university. But it makes clear that we have a specific responsibility in what we are giving to the next
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