Bilanz

In his farewell lecture, the author combines considerations on this academic rite of passage with a review on life for, by and in the university. It is illuminated from various perspectives: as a living context with intellectual and institutional opportunities and challenges, as a place of learning and teaching between church and humanities, and as an ivory tower with permanent reflection of ideas, the variation and further development of which, despite all contingency, also reveals lines. The image of the double scale, which originates from business management, stands for the weighing up that is required - and it marks an anchor for open and perspective-widening reflections beyond the limits of offsetting.