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# Code: Similarities
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Socratic Dialogue reflection paper - Marion Sathicq.docx
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-It would not be the SAME for a man
-What is our choice then? Adopt the SAME type of leadership then men, even if it might sound wrong or it might not match your personality? Or be proud of your own type of management but then take the risk to appear not “managerial” enough? I remember one time when I had to manage a whole class of people younger than me, I tried to be respected by leading them in my own way (i
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay + Journal Carlos Manubens.pdf
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-It is only when asking the big questions in life that one can really take the initiative to become self aware and understand the path that will guide him/her towards becoming a 1 I decided to blend the essay and journal TOGETHER
-Fear is an irrational emotion that can lead you to unwanted states of mind and soul and even disturb you consistently over time and over the SAME issue
-And that builds fear towards committing those mistakes again or simply resignation from knowing some things will never be exactly the SAME since there are mistakes that are sometimes irreversible
-The SAME applies for all other combinations and this is why happiness is so difficult to achieve since depending on the share of time spent you will reach towards a better work life or better relationships or better care of yourself, but the all in one is difficult to achieve
-However this moral rules are adaptive to the geography where you live or work or travel since actually I do believe what is good in Indonesia is not the SAME as what is good in Spain or in Mexico
-And to live in peace you have to be able to understand that not everyone has had the best background to grow in and he might have been dragged to violence, crime and drugs for instance but that maybe if you were born in the SAME position you would do the SAME
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Reflection Paper Juliette ten Brink.docx
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-After having our session and talking about Aristotle I find that happiness is RELATED to virtue more than I instinctively or intuitively thought
-However, if you decide to see happiness as something RELATED to the satisfaction of needs or desires, then I don't think you can ever be happy because there will always be new desires
-I think fear is usually RELATED to uncertainty and I think if you develop a certain sense of resilience to uncertain situations, then you might be able to rationalize fears and move past them
-If I fear loneliness, and I imagine that I am lonely that means that I am by myself somewhere and missing out on activities and things where other people would be TOGETHER
-Criteria less RELATED to compensating my insecurities and more RELATED to building on my strengths and the things that I believe in
-Morality is therefore not RELATED to age, but to self-discovery
-Basically, women have a different moral compass RELATED to improving their relationship with others and taking care of others
-In that sense, women should take their voices RELATED to nurturing relationships into companies and make themselves heard when it comes to caring for others
-The fundamental of what businesses do is RELATED to people, and in that context a female ‘voice’ that understands how to care and show understanding for people is invaluable
-I agree that justice is about being morally right and fair but I disagree that fair is about equality, because equality implies EQUAL starting points in life and we don't have EQUAL starting points
-That brings me to my idea of justice, which is focused on imagining we all had EQUAL starting points at the level of zero, meaning we have nothing, and deciding on the rules and values that we would like to give ourselves in such a situation
-I imagine that we would come up with quite SIMILAR viewpoints and that we would hope for a world where people are respected, have dignity and have the opportunity to grow
-When I think about it, reasons for me to choose a more ‘selfish’ life are all RELATED to obtaining external validation, a desire I am trying so hard to fight
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## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_ViktorPenzinger.pdf
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-Final Essay Viktor Penzinger Socratic Dialogue: Philosophy and Narratives that improve our Management skills Professor: Sira Abenoza Spring 2016, ESADE Socratic Dialogue, Final Essay Viktor Penzinger ESADE, Spring 2016 Introduction The idea of this final essay is to obtain an extract of my personally most valuable learning outcomes derived from blending TOGETHER the literature provided, the discussions held in class but also some own thoughts RELATED to the topics
-Nevertheless, I was always keen on working on my general knowledge apart from business-RELATED areas, and the idea to talk freely about some of the most philosophical questions in life with some of the most bright students I would encounter there seemed promising
-Some are RELATED to myself, while others concern the way I engaged and dealt with other individuals in class
-In other words, I’m of the opinion that one can obtain a much deeper understanding of a given philosopher by comparing him or her to RELATED works in that area that had been carried out already
-In a nutshell, reading these type of texts made me on the one hand realize that I find it hard to focus, but at the SAME time also helped me to find the “flow” again by actually forcing me to do so
-Like all three children would deserve the flute according to a specific line of reasoning, one can also imagine RELATED decisions managers have to take on a regular basis such as who to hire, promote, lay-off, send on training or even abroad for an expatriation assignment
-If we transfer that into the world of managers, the latter should always consider the two sides of the SAME medal (e
-How can the key takeaways be valuable for my life in general? After having talked about general and business-RELATED learning outcomes in the previous sections, I will now turn to some very private takeaways that I was able to obtain from this Socratic Dialogue class
-Sometimes I was even worried that I worry too much and I assume a lot of people have encountered SIMILAR situations of doubt
-At the SAME time, I can show more patience when talking to others, giving them a chance to explain their points and always letting them finish their sentence
-In this SAME conflict between debates and dialogues, to me, being missionary is also loosely connected to bringing prejudices to the table
-The SAME was true for the inmates, who only saw spoiled kids of rich parents at first glance
-Nevertheless, I believe that every action that brings TOGETHER people that rarely can get in touch (such as inmates and students) and that tries to eliminate the initial anxiety can be considered an action that works towards the acceptance in society as a whole and therefore also towards future reintegration
-Overall, I can say that the next time I will encounter a former inmate on his way towards a well-done reintegration after jail, or a traumatised refugee that fights with SIMILAR problems of acceptance after fleeing to Europe, I will try to reflect on what I have seen in the movie and try to break up the prejudices as much as possible
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## Source: SPRING 2015/SOCRATIC DIALOGUES JOURNAL.pdf
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-Responsibility “There is no document of civilization that is not at the SAME time a document of barbarism
-The second is to understand more the different opinions and different approaches people can have to the SAME topic, as this was something constant in our class
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay.docx
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-Thanks to the help of our philosophy teacher, that was able to intellectually stimulate us, I had the best conversations of my life, inside and outside class, the kind of conversations that determine the person you are and that will stay forever in your heart, TOGETHER with the people you have done them with
-Despite the fact that most of the people I met were very smart and brilliant, almost none of them seemed to be interested in reasoning and conversations about topics not directly RELATED to business, and when I tried to put on the table questions about some “philosophical issues” most of the people refuse to answer or immediately change the topic saying that discussing abstract things was just a waste of time
-What I don’t like at all of the European university approach is the fact that you can hardly take courses or exams outside of your major, while I think that being interested in different topics and open your mind studying a subject through the lenses of different disciplines it is fundamental for becoming a better manager, doctor, architect… I was extremely sad to not have this possibility in my home university, that only offers courses strictly RELATED to business and management
-This is why when I had a look at the different courses offered by the Cems universities in order to decide my ranking between them, I was so excited in seeing that Esade was offering classes RELATED to philosophy or religious values etc that I immediately decided to put this university first in my ranking, despite the fact that originally I wanted to go outside Europe
-In particular, three big themes were extremely important for me: happiness and meaning of life, which I consider strictly RELATED, justice and morality and responsibility
-Thanks to the discussion in class and the authors analyzed thoughts, I started thinking about the dilemma: is happiness an attitude or it is RELATED to the circumstances that you have to face? Following the thoughts of the first authors that I read, in particular Epictetus and the Stoics (Epicurus) initially I propended more for the attitude aspect
-One can say, if it is an attitude and it’s not RELATED to what happens to you, why you have to work hard to find a job or an husband for example, if you are able to be happy at the SAME level even alone living under a bridge? That’s clearly not the case
-The second topic that had a major impact on me was RELATED to justice and morality
-However, for the majority of the crimes, I think that they can be RELATED more to instinct that to conscience or reasoning
-In other words, our individual goal is to be happy but our collective scope is to survive and have kids, and that’s why our instinct (RELATED to the collective higher purpose) might lead us against our individual scope (behave following our conscience to be happy)
-At some point during last semester, which was particularly stressing for me, I found myself applying for the SAME job as my classmates, in the biggest MNE and Consulting companies
-Listening some of my classmates’ interventions, I realized that I was in disagreement with them and I didn’t share their personal goals but at the SAME time I was making all the steps to do the SAME things they are doing
-I probably read more books (not RELATED to business thanks to God) in this 3 months than in all my University life where I never had the time
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Final.pdf
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-Frustrating, because, it is hard to put into words what I have taken away from discussing very fundamental topics and at the SAME time give it a sense of closure, as dialoguing in class has risen many other questions that remain open
-This essentially clashes with my own concept of happiness, which is RELATED to a feeling of plenitude
-When we briefly touched upon the topic of fear in class, we all seemed to quickly agree to the SAME understanding that fear can also have a positive effect when it is dominated, because it helps us survive
-This concern came to the fore during our debate over how to control innovation when I voiced the concern that people who know might still not be the best to decide, as nowadays, people who make decisions about the something and people who bear consequences or the risks of such decisions are often not the SAME
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay - Dasha.pdf
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-On the other hand, having faith that happiness is achievable by generally living a good life also paints a positive and promising picture for the future, at the SAME time, installs a sense of rules and morals in the society
-The SAME rule applies to how the society evolves through time
-Along the SAME line of logic, desires can also be a driver for development and progress in the society
-In the beginning, when there was no “rules and order”, incidents that might be deemed immoral now might not have been perceived the SAME way back then
-Ironically, most men actually have the SIMILAR concerns that allow them to care for others, but they choose not to act as such because they refuse to be seen as “less masculine”
-However, this “ability” of women can be beneficial but at the SAME time detrimental to the concept of feminism or gender equality
-When facing the SAME situation, women may be forced to make the compromise that would not have happened were it assigned to men
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Isabelle Spicker_Socratic Final.pdf
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-As is apparent from the previous section, the topics of meaning, happiness and the answer to my question of “why?” are closely RELATED
-Those are not RELATED to her professional career but rather to improving her abilities and refining her personality in her free time
-As can be seen from this, meaning and responsibility are closely RELATED for me as it only seems meaningful to me to engage for something that is meaningful to others as well
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## Source: SPRING 2015/KGanko_paper.pdf
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-In the following part of the final paper I will expand with details on my learnings from every session and readings RELATED to those sessions
-Another learning RELATED to the importance of the ability to actively listen to others
-My main learning when answering questions RELATED with the Heinz thought experiment was realization on how I approach moral dilemmas
-Morality is strictly RELATED to human relationships
-We have also RELATED and compared the existing theories which the ones that students developed during the previous session
-It turned out that the concept of moral evolution named “How to become Ghandi in six steps” was the most SIMILAR to Kohlberg’s theory
-However, what worries me the most is the fact that, even though asking questions and dialoguing has so many advantages, what should be our strategies for implementing that method with people who do not want to dialogue? Who do not want to listen, because they think they are always right? Would we be courageous enough to pursue despite receiving rejections? How can we teach others how dialogue if they only know how to debate? How would we know if we have some effect on others? Socrates was poisoned because of his efforts to educate himself and others, to question people and make them think – are people seeking the truth under the SAME threat? If yes is it worth to sacrifice oneself? (After studying philosophy we are left with more questions than answers)
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## Source: SPRING 2015/SD_FinalEssay_AlessaVogler.pdf
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-Maybe even more important, I also learned that there are many other students who feel the SAME like I do
-So in my opinion, it is our duty, SIMILAR to what Socrates did, to make other people in our environment starting to question and examining their lives and their behaviour
-We also talked about the idea of ‘grey zones’ in the SAME session
-The idea of grey zones however helps to overcome this and many other SIMILAR issues
-The SAME holds true for every decision that we make and recognizing that there are grey zones can be helpful when negotiating later in our professional career
-As I have stated in the beginning, this was probably the best course I have ever taken at university and I know that many other fellow students feel the SAME
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## Source: SPRING 2015/socratic final essay.docx
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-The beauty of it was, we were all doing the SAME so everyone was actually constantly changing their minds
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Marek Medvesek_Final essay_ Socratic Dialogue.pdf
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-We somehow take it for granted, assuming we all more or less have the SAME perspectives on our future
-We, business students are used to fighting over our rights, defending our opinions and trying at the SAME time to convince the other party to support our point of view
-Even though there are cultures in, which such behaviour is commonly known I am convinced in the western and more liberal countries the very SAME incident takes place
-From this difficult statement we managed somehow to arrive at a yet different conclusion, that was directly RELATED to the main subject of the class - different characters experience happiness in a different way
-The assumptions behind the original experiment were that men undergoing the test usually tend to pick the 1st picture of the set and write a story RELATED to a professional career
-The discussion about the experiment opened furthermore a gate to a great variety of other RELATED topics - from househusbands, through evil nannies and overprotective moms to a question whether it is ethical at all to have children considering the apocalypse that is about to stumble upon us in the nearest future
-It was eye opening to see that even though at the surface we looked as a very SIMILAR group of people our views on life differ greatly
-Whether we turn out to be criminals is not RELATED to our personality traits then as the conservative theories used to say
-We begun with the quote “There is no document of civilisation that is not at the SAME time a document of barbarism”
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## Source: SPRING 2015/AKBAR, Sumer - SD Final Essay.docx
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-Throughout this course, we explored topics RELATED to happiness, fear, justice, and responsibility in addition to acknowledging who we are on a personal level and questioning our sense of morality
-Through this exercise, I realized how SIMILAR and different I was in comparison to my peer group made up of 10 countries
-What surprised me was the level of SIMILARITY that was common
-Perhaps, it is our generation or the fact that we are all completing a SIMILAR Master’s program, or that relatively speaking, we have come from fortunate backgrounds with fewer and different difficulties than someone raised elsewhere
-According to Aristotle who thought along SIMILAR lines believing the notion that “human beings are social beings,” gave rise to idea that humans are bounded by the ability to express themselves through the exchange of ideas and organization and have the ability to express themselves through cooperation and competition
-What makes one person happy does not necessarily mean it would have the SAME effect on another
-Topic Five: Justice In class we discussed how "there is no document of civilization that is not at the SAME time a document of barbarism"
-I believe that society has this misconception that we are indeed civilized, but if that were the case, then why do we still need the justice system to either instil fear preventing us from doing bad things? In the SAME breath, the justice system is there to protect us from criminal activity
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Laker, Maximilian - Final Essay.pdf
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-The goal was always to enrich each others ideas on the topic, not to win an argument over someone, to determine right or wrong, but rather to reach a higher understanding of a topic TOGETHER, than everybody would have achieved individually
-Sira Abenoza | ESADE | CEMS | Maximilian Laker participated with roughly EQUAL proportions, enabling to mutually benefit from everybody’s ideas
-At the SAME time many external forces, such as expectations and perceived peer-pressure guide many people into some of these professions without them ever having intended to go there initially
-At the SAME time, according to the aforementioned notion the actual behavior of the individual, rather than only the contemplation of ideas, are in the focus of this school of thought
-However, at the SAME time I have a strict imperative to act upon the things that are under my control
-At the SAME time, as a consequence of the prevailing pride in Western work-ethics, mere activism oftentimes arises
-During class we explored a RELATED topic: Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
-JUSTICE & RESPONSIBILITY Seeing in the documentary Philosophy Behind Bars about Sira’s project, where inmates and ESADE law students are brought TOGETHER, how people from diametrically opposed parts of our society can emphasize with each other and build genuine personal relationships left a lasting impression on me
-It is up to us, to design the mechanisms of society in ways that provides everybody with EQUAL opportunities, that includes and educates rather than isolates, and hence ensures that society progresses further
-Alternatively, we can instruct and inspire others to benefit society, create environments that are more like the previously explained dialogue, in which people can flourish and feel comfortable at the SAME time, and we can help others towards leading a more reflective, better life
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## Source: SPRING 2015/Final Essay_Phillip Schmalzried.pdf
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-While Paul Satre considered life itself meaningless, Viktor Frankl’s work, which we discussed in class, implied a SIMILAR understanding
-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
-Does it matter what our real identity is if it never appears the SAME to anybody anyways or if it changes constantly? If it really comes down to a pile of perceptions, is our identity then based on what others think of us? I like to think that we have control over our identity to a large extend, and that it is shaped by the choices we make, but also influenced by the experiences we make and that we have no control over
-At the SAME time, however, not taking into account the external factors and all stakeholders involved, would make for a very narrow-­‐minded person
-In addition to that, and maybe even more importantly, by questioning others – when doing so in a sensible manner as Socrates taught us to – we can help others to achieve the SAME
-We can help them get a little closer to what Socrates refers to as excellence, while at the SAME time being far from excellent ourselves
-I am truly happy that I was once again reminded of the importance of communication style and that I now have the technique and experience to strive for excellence – TOGETHER with every other party involved
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## Source: SPRING 2015/YelizSunay_FinalReflectionandEssay.pdf
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-And the SAME goes for education
-A friend of mine did the SAME program and he decided to take a full position afterwards instead of completing the program with a Masters degree
-However, it becomes critical if you keep on doing the SAME mistakes either without knowing or simply neglecting them
-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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-You don’t often get SIMILAR courses in business school curriculums
-The funny thing I’ve learned in class, though, is that many people who would otherwise fall in the “happiness through socio-economic success” category seems to be thinking in the SAME way as I do
-One might ask how the two are even RELATED
-However, considering my definition, living with some of our fears is EQUAL to choosing a form of slavery
-Sometimes it makes up for mental suffering EQUAL to that of Viktor Frankl’s physical torments in prison
-In some societies the SAME applied to any person that came up with an ingenious invention, deeming them “wizards” and burning them to the stake in public
-I made a very strong comment about placing the high and powerful men of our world in the SAME cells as the twisted “scum” that they so much despise and look down upon
-For once the Donald Trumps of this world will sit on the SAME yard bench as the Mexican bank-robbers they want to send to the chair and see what is that dictates their behavior and vice versa
-I lack the SAME kind of experiential education that they received
-Then I realized why this “stupid law” was in place, what was it that others, more experienced than me, had seen in punishing people with severe fines for something as plain as jaywalking, and why I should refrain from it and encourage others to do the SAME
-Prison, if it claims to be a correctional facility, should have the SAME essence as a “timeout” that parents impose on their kids when they send them back to their room
-Now if I was in that room knowing that things will never be the SAME, while my father kicked in the door once in a while just to remind me what a big failure I am then I might actually have turned my attention away from beneficial reflection and into crafting arguments for why he is an even bigger one
-And I believe once you done it once or twice you’ll find that many people who previously stood silent in front of SIMILAR situations find motivation to follow in your steps and cleanse the world of it, step by step
-All I want to mention is that they were all quite inspiring and fairly SIMILAR in their content
-All in all, I am truly pleased for having the opportunity to see that in us, and as I mentioned, it is comforting to see that so many people from so different backgrounds have the SAME anxieties and thoughts about our world
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