FRSA 2025 Member Evaluation

Produced by 36 LEARNING MATTERS Avi Bernstein-Nahar, Founder and Principal

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Which Academy sessions would you describe as having been integral to a successful Academy experience for you? Select as many as you like/(Required)

Day I Icebreaker with Music

Text Based Learning, Plenary

Small Group Discussions, Breakout

Field Trips, Extracurriculur

One-on-One with the Director

German Language Focused Sessions (where applicable)

Capstone Presentations

Please reflect on your answers above. What session-types were most valuable? Which session-types could do with re-thinking?(Required)

The design of the program called for an introduction of a promising but problemac characterization of the FR-HC relationship, followed in subsequent days by texts that could serve as evidence for giving a better or more persuasive interpretation of that relationship than the one contained in the impressive article. The program culminated in an opportunity for the members of the Academy to provide their own answer to the problematic and relate that problematic to their own project. Did this design work for you?(Required)

Please explain your perspecive as briefly indicated above.(Required)

What would you say is the thesis of Rosenzweig's book, Hegel and the State? Please don't write more than two sentences. The ideal answer would be one sentence long.(Required)

Do you agree with the statement, Hermann Cohen's Ethics of the Pure Will is a book about the immorality of the nation-state? Try to support your answer by indicating what Cohen's major concern was in the Ethics of the Pure Will, among other scholarship.(Required)

Do you agree with the statement, Franz Rosenzweig is Hermann Cohen's ambivalent disciple? Please answer Yes, or No, and try to support your answer, if possible, with one additional statement that begins something like, "The major reason Rosenzweig should be regarded [or should not be regarded] as Hermann Cohen's disciple is because"(Required)

The Academy was designed not only to introduce you to Cohen and Rosenzweig, but also to benefit your intellectual-spiritual project, whatever that may be. Please use this space to indicate whether and to what extent this came to pass.(Required)

Which day or days were your favorite?(Required)

First Day

Second Day

Third Day

Fourth Day

Fifth Day

The FRSA 2025 met my expectations.(Required)

What changes would you suggest we consider for the Summer 2026 FRSA?(Required)

What would be an intriguing problem area or question for next year's FRSA, whether you are planning to attend or not?(Required)

Would you be motivated to come to the FRSA 2026 if the major focus were Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption?(Required)

Yes

Maybe

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