Tag Archives: Hansjorg Rothe

The mystical prophet and his Bride of Christ

January 30, 2017

Hansjörg Rothe Austria and Klinikum Coburg, Germany   Sabbatai Zvi (1626-1676), as sketched in 1666 by an eye witness.  From Thomas Coenen, “Ydele Verwachtinge der Joden…” Amsterdam, 1669. In 1648, the year when the exhausted European powers at last ended the Thirty Years’ War, the Orthodox Ukrainian peasants rose against their Catholic Polish overlords and […]

How to acquire something external – Immanuel Kant on kidney-paired donation

January 30, 2017

Hansjörg Rothe Würzburg, Germany   Immanuel Kant Literature in its finest examples stands above time. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he could not foresee what our daily life would be like at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Neither could he have dreamt of all those technical innovations mankind would achieve in the 400 years to […]