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A writer of books probably ought to account for the motivations behind this occupation. Three topical spheres motivated me to write: science, philosophy and politics, upon their shared grounding of religion. Science, specifically theoretical physics, is my profession by training, in which I am also still employed today. Philosophy is the attempt to understand what we think and what we do; for me, for instance, it was initially an attempt to understand science. Politics, by contrast, is the grim duty of the physicist in the age of the atomic bomb.
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This text combines selected parts of a book which was published as: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Der Mensch in seiner Geschichte [The Man within his History] (München, Wien: Hanser, 1990): 83; 176–181. It was translated for this volume by Ms. Ann Hentschel with the financial support of the Udo Keller Foundation.
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See: MsG, Part I, First Chapter.
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From [MsG] Part II [Insights].
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My friend, the historian Hermann Heimpel, wrote a book decades ago on man in his presence: Der Mensch in seiner Gegenwart. Perhaps a recollection stored in my subconscience prompted me to give my book its current title.
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In this volume following as 8.5.
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The Republic, 509d–518b: end of the 6th book and beginning of the 7th.
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von Weizsacker, C.F. (2015). Circle Walk. In: Bartosch, U. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Pioneer of Physics, Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Peace Research. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13446-8_8
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