An experiment at the TU Darmstadt enraptured the FAZ. About 80 engineering students sit at this eve Early April, four philosophy professors. Equal to the sample rotation for the next semester to begin mandatory lecture: The lecture series "Philosophy for Mechanical Engineers" in this form is a novelty in Germany. "They should learn how we tick," announces the science philosopher Alfred Nordmann the listeners who willingly take on the clash with other professionals.
The bridge over the gulf between the cultures of knowledge leads to common terms: technology and practice, energy and momentum - marked the vocabulary of engineers has a philosopher. For as Aristotle in the fourth century BC, "Physics" "Politics" and "Poetics", wrote the line between thinkers and doers was still soft and translucent. Only in modern times, step by step, the user separated from the theorists. Today, most engineers humanities in general and philosophers in particular at the universities often true as the world's foreign exotics - and vice versa.
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