Das Zuträgliche erkennen – Auf den Spuren zur alten Stoa

In the organizer's words:

Foyer:

The evening opens up a thinking space to the older Stoa - the school that emerged around 300 BC in the columned halls of HELLAS (Athens), and which turned Socratic questioning into a daily exercise.

What is really good for me? This Stoic question is not a question of benefit. It is a question of clarity: What helps me to stay with myself - in the rush of impressions, in the storm of emotions, in hasty judgment? Gerd B. Achenbach has taken up this thread and translated it into contemporary philosophical practice: as a probing, probing conversation that remains focused on the individual. The evening continues this thread. Not by lecturing, but by engaging in joint conversation, as founded by Socrates and methodically defined by Leonard Nelson.

In this way, the evening becomes a space for practice: a place where the Stoic distinction - what is in our power, what is not - is not presented, but rather carried out in joint questioning. Not as an answer to the question of how to live - but as an invitation to face this question together.