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This text was first published as Chap. 10 of the “Gifford Lectures” 1959–1961 in: C.F. von Weizsäcker, The Relevance of Science. (New York: Harper and Row–London: Collins, 1964). All rights of the Weizsäcker Bequest were transferred to the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Society, a nonprofit society whose executive chairman, Dr. Bruno Redeker, granted permission in March 2014 to use selected texts of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.
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German: aufgehoben. The verb can mean "take up", ‘preserve’ or ‘abolish’; it is impossible to reproduce the word-play in English.
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aufheben, see note 3.
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2014). What Is Secularization?. In: Raiser, K. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Religion. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03704-2_5
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