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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Socratic Dialogue reflection paper - Marion Sathicq.docx | |
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| -Having a CLEAR line to follow is essential, but, mainly, when it comes to responsibility, what comes to my mind is the ability to step back and evaluate the impact of your actions | |
| -Remembering that there is always another way is hard because it also means there is no rest for you: you always have to JUDGE yourself, examine yourself, weigh the pros and cons of every decision and genuinely wonder if, given your responsibility to do good, this was the best choice | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay + Journal Carlos Manubens.pdf | |
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| -When saying good people I do not refer to people that do right but people who have very CLEAR ideas of who they are, where they are heading and how they are heading there | |
| -I believe it is very difficult to JUDGE anyone’s actions before having walked 40 days in his shoes, as a proverb says | |
| -But these absolute standards are also conditional to some requisites to be met and would allow you to JUDGE someone if for no reason he/she would steal a purse with no need or run over somebody with a car without any reason | |
| -Justice is clearly correlated to the previous topic in the sense that it tries to establish and JUDGE what is good and what is bad and try to blame people for wrongdoing and reward good people for doing good | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_ViktorPenzinger.pdf | |
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| -One the other hand though, I (maybe already affected from the striving for efficiency and hard skills at business schools) could not see a CLEAR benefit of this class for my future career as manager – especially when I compared it to the other classes offered with a strong focus on strategic or management topics | |
| -Therefore, a quick hypothetical cost/benefit analysis resulted in a CLEAR preference for signing up to this course, and I was eager to hear how others would feel about the topics outlined in the syllabus | |
| -Looking back to the first day of class, I can say that there was no CLEAR “thinking cut” possible in both its breaks as well as after its end | |
| -Is my identity as a manager different from what my identity is as a whole? Do I play a role, which means some kind of narrative I tell myself to be (Paul Ricœur) or am I even faking 4 Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 it to know myself better (see: Fernando Pessoa)? And, last but not least, who should be the one to JUDGE about my identity as a manager? Who really knows my identity better – me as the “owner” holding the strings of my identity, or my social environment, i | |
| -In addition, we can ASSUME that these managers have enjoyed extensive education and should therefore be aware of their responsibility | |
| -As a consequence, one might ASSUME that like children are not able to experience happiness since they haven’t flourished yet according to Aristotle, it is questionable whether we can be happy at the moment when we start our first job as graduates | |
| -Sometimes I was even worried that I worry too much and I ASSUME a lot of people have encountered similar situations of doubt | |
| -Of course, these individuals did commit more or less severe crimes, but I ASSUME that we only establish these prejudices to defend and confirm ourselves, rather than allowing ourselves to find some common denominators with almost every stranger once we get to know them better | |
| -Secondly, besides listening skills, the citizen can sharpen his ability to express thoughts and doubts in a CLEAR way, a capability highly valuable in situations of public speaking | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SOCRATIC DIALOGUES JOURNAL.pdf | |
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| -Happiness “If one has character, one has also one’s typical experience that recurs again and again” (Nietzsche) Is character influenced by the experiences that we have or is it the other way round and the experiences will affect us differently depending on our character? There seems to be no CLEAR answer to this question as we were discussing it for long, but the only conclusion we reached was that people had different character | |
| -It was CLEAR that active listening is actually useful, as we are used to listen to be able to respond in order to expose or impose our opinion, but we are not used to listen openly without judging the others opinion | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay.docx | |
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| -Dylan What brought me in this course? I guess that to give a little bit of structure to this paper I have to start with my background in order to make CLEAR why I wanted to be in this course and what were my expectations | |
| -Discussing about happiness was important for me because, differently from other topics, I did not have a CLEAR theory on it | |
| -For the first time during the classes about this topic I saw the paradox, I was taking all my decisions and actions to reach happiness but without a CLEAR direction, and that was a terrible mistake from my part | |
| -Our life is a continuous run and most of us have more or less CLEAR the final objective, that is probably to be happy, but only few people stop and actually think about how to get there | |
| -In order to be proud of yourself/be happy you have to have a CLEAR set of values or of rules to follow | |
| -In society in which religion was not so strong or was not giving CLEAR rules on how to behave, such as in the ancient Greek, philosophy was created and, considering the time the most important philosophers at that time dedicated to explain virtues, I guess there was a need to define values and shared definition of the best behaviors | |
| -However, if you are so unlucky that you are not religious and you cannot identify yourself with any CLEAR codifications of optimal behaviors and values, things get more complicated | |
| -What is next for me? Now that, thanks to this course, I have CLEAR what I don’t want to do and what I don’t want to be, I have to start consider different options of what I want to be and do | |
| -I would love to follow this path even if I have already encountered some obstacles (for example I cannot speak Catalan yet, I am not sure if I meet all the requirements to be admitted since they are not CLEAR and my parents told me: “we have already paid two masters for you, now you can do whatever as far as you will work and be able to pay everything for yourself”) | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final.pdf | |
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| -In this sense, if somebody follows very strictly the Hellenistic approach of self-restraint, sacrificing present enjoyment or pleasures for future happiness, but their lifes end prematurely, it wouldn’t be CLEAR to me that this person would have lived a happy life, rather the contrary | |
| -I think the most valuable element of this course is precisely having confronted us to these abstract, uncomfortable situations, to force us to think out of our comfort zone and not providing us with the shortcut of a CLEAR cut answer | |
| -§ Related to that, the only debate we had throughout the course sent a very CLEAR message to me: the frame for communication really matters in terms of the outcomes | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay - Dasha.pdf | |
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| -The minor downside of this ASSUMPTION is that happiness appears to be a distant goal with no promise of enjoyment but effort on the way | |
| -In theory, this individual then should have developed a CLEAR set of principles and morals that he/she abide by | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Isabelle Spicker_Socratic Final.pdf | |
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| -Although this sounds very CLEAR and logical, it unsettled me that lying in the sun actually still makes me very Isabelle Spicker Socratic Dialogue Final Essay happy | |
| -It can help us achieve what we want at times of flow but I ASSUME that it also helps us be more resilient at times of hardship | |
| -Thus, I will very probably ASSUME high responsibility | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_AlessaVogler.pdf | |
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| -Having completed the first session of our ‘Socratic Dialogue’ course, I felt confirmed in my ASSUMPTION that I have chosen the wrong career path | |
| -According to Socrates “the UNEXAMINED life is not worth living” | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/socratic final essay.docx | |
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| -Wrapping the semester up now, I feel I have been fortunate enough to see that my PREJUDICE is now broken and perhaps this has been the greatest gain of it all; learning to be open and being able to get inspired by others without PREJUDICE | |
| -It allowed me to see that stereotyping is also a way of PREJUDICE and it directly affects how we perceive or treat people | |
| -I can not say that I have a CLEAR definition of justice or human rights in my head now, I have always struggled with these concepts and my learnings from that session were not really about how justice should work but it was more about the power of dialogue and PREJUDICE | |
| -It was an incredible experiment for PREJUDICE, empathy and justice | |
| -We also discussed whether if criminals should be punished or rehabilitated in that session, about what the purpose of prisons should be and it has been made CLEAR to me that prisons can not only be about punishment, they need to rehabilitate those people | |
| -But what is the point if that person who has been isolated throughout his life gets only further isolation in the prison and when he gets out, gets subjected to huge amounts of PREJUDICE and can’t even get a job and adapt to the normal world? What is that person going to do, how can he try to live a good and honest, “virtuous” life if he is not even presented the slightest opportunity | |
| -Even though I am more self aware, more confident, more empathy capable and “almost” PREJUDICE free now, I am also more skeptical | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Marek Medvesek_Final essay_ Socratic Dialogue.pdf | |
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| -It is CLEAR that desire is what drives us | |
| -Normally Maria would distort the CLEAR division in the way of thinking between the Germans / Austrians and Italians / Spanish, it has to be mentioned however that she grew up in Belgium, which may have had some influence on her way of thinking | |
| -Having seen it made me think about all the PREJUDICE people have towards prisoners | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/AKBAR, Sumer - SD Final Essay.docx | |
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| -It became CLEAR to me that I had to look into my own thought process and challenge the underlying assumptions I have made | |
| -It is not my intention to JUDGE, but unintentionally I do | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Laker, Maximilian - Final Essay.pdf | |
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| -Besides, getting to practice the art of the Socratic Dialogue and having an extremely interesting conversation with my brother, there was a third remarkable aspect of doing this exercise: Towards the end of the dialogue, my brother raised the question whether happiness – notwithstanding it’s CLEAR attractiveness – represents the meaning of live | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay_Phillip Schmalzried.pdf | |
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| -Above all, Socrates’ claim of an UNEXAMINED life being unworthy | |
| -So when Socrates claims that an UNEXAMINED life is unworthy, I believe he is very much in line with Frankl’s theory of the existential vacuum, as the result seems to be the same | |
| -Nevertheless, when asking people about their identity, I would ASSUME that only very few have a sophisticated answer at hand, which they would stick to when being questioned | |
| -Let’s ASSUME the resource of interest is coltan, a scarce resource mainly controlled by African rebels which use their revenues to finance their wars | |
| -It would be naive, however, to ASSUME that any ideal manager was in a position to take on issues of this magnitude | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/YelizSunay_FinalReflectionandEssay.pdf | |
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| -Hmm so that means apparently there are situations where this ASSUMPTION does not hold true… Interesting! Today I can say that the more I think about it the happier I am | |
| -As Socrates would say back then ‘an UNEXAMINED life is not worth living’ and for sure he has point there | |
| -People have experienced different moments in their lives and nobody can JUDGE them accordingly – yet if we see something wrong we need to speak up | |
| -I thought maybe he has to CLEAR his mind and ‘know himself’ before trying to love somebody else | |
| -I still believe that one of the most influential quotes is that ‘The UNEXAMINED life is not worth living’, because if I keep on doing the same thing everyday it would not be fulfilling | |
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| ## Source: SPRING 2015/Dimitrios Mitropoulos - Final Essay.docx | |
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| -But most importantly, I think, we need to have a CLEAR picture of who we were so that we have a solid point of reference when situations try to distort it | |
| -Here, I ASSUME you already have a rough idea of who you are, but I also recognize the ability of society to corrode you | |
| -The difference is that her/his suffering and pain will be strictly physical, as a happy person has a “CLEAR” mind | |
| -But it took a single moment and then it was CLEAR to me | |
| -And if you want to be able to lead a team of others looking up to you to come up with the best solution you have to be free and unbiased, able to decide with a CLEAR mind and a pure heart | |
| -Since there is no “one-size-fits-all” moral code throughout the world for even the most “black-or-white” situations (which would have been nice, since this notion is the foundation for peaceful anarchy) I ASSUME what we need to do is to examine every situation through our own lens, and then consult the opinion of others of distinct experiences and backgrounds, to see what is it that society nowadays considers right and wrong | |
| -I am therefore not fit to be a “JUDGE”, neither do I feel worthy of talking about justice | |
| -Many arguments were raised regarding the pros and cons of such a position but what seemed to be CLEAR is that a leader is someone who is born from social approval rather than appointment | |
| -I’m pretty sure a CLEAR example of that comes to your mind | |
| -I admit, we might have dwelled on the VW case quite a while, but it is a fine example of DISTORTED morality in the corporate world | |
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