Intellectuals, German

When the social sciences picked up on this idea they stirred up a great deal of intellectual excitement. The German sociologist N. Luhmann constructed an entire field based on social autopoiesis (Luhmann, 1984), and autopoiesis was also applied to the judicial system, to literature, and in systemic family therapy - see the work by John Mingers (Mingers, 1992 1995 and 1997). 

The fundamental dignity of humans that sets us apart from animals lies in the fact that we do not take our sensual impressions as being identical to objective reality, but that we doubt and can resolve our doubts through intellectual activity—research. This factor of human dignity is suspended in Germany in this particular field, (cf. Article 1, of German Basic Law). 

On Hajelt, see R. J. W. Evans, Rudolf II and His World A Study in Intellectual History (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1973), 203-04. On Mosanus, see Moran, The Alchemical World of the German Court, 79-86. Finally, on Hlavsa (or Hlawsa) and Scheinpflugerin s activities, see the letters in SOA Tfebon RRA 25. 

One must assume that the destruction of the Jews was led by German experts. Wiehn7 emphasizes that the Einsatzkommandos were headed by intellectuals (p. 17). But it is an unforgivable mistake for experts to claim that there were about 300,000 Jews in Kyiv, especially two-and-a-half weeks after that city had been occupied, by which time there would have been a relatively reliable overview of the situation. 

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