Strategic challenges for Austrian universities with a special emphasis on Vienna 2010 AD

Scientific Study from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems Comparative Law Vienna University of Economics and Business (Institut für Rechtsphilosophie Religions- und Kulturrecht) course: Against „white-washing shadows of philosophers in ethics lectures/courses language: English abstract: At universities students are often presented (almost) „semi-divine personalities be it KANT be it HEGEL be it HUME be it other important influencial thinkers especially in the field of - so called - „ethics be it e.g. so called „management ethics be it so called „legal ethics. Some of these students are simply one thing: fed up with the way of in fact almost „gloryfying (!) these men. It remains the job of at least some people to at least partially critically (re-)think what and how things are presented to students. Vienna a city of critically thinking men and women? Vienna a city in which e.g. Immanuel KANT is (also!) presented in a (more) critical manner e.g. with respect to KANT's „views e.g. on women Afro-americans Jews? Vienna a city in which also a so called „faculty of law exists in which (some!) legal philosophers - nothwithstanding the fact that many of them would in fact wish to change some ways and words of presenting e.g. KANT HEGEL or ROUSSEAU to students - simply contrary to a sometimes „I-am-willing-to-change-something „rhetorics- do not change anything in the direction e.g. of also informing students at least about the existence of Prof Dr Anton Wilhelm AMO a contemporary of e.g. Immanuel KANT a man who had to suffer so many prejudices who tought at universities nothwithstanding racial (partially) hatred-filled boastful texts spoken and unspoken words. Why not mention e.g. him for instance in the Viennese „Einführungsskripten (introductory scripts to law) also e.g. the script of a corresponding member of the AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Prof Dr Gerhard LUF a man also educated and gifted in a