Teresa M. Taddonio first historical political work about the power of conscience decisions published on May 20, 2011 why people sacrificed my life for a belief or a political ideal? How did historical figures such as Luther, Socrates and Galileo to models for the present? What is left of the student movement of 1968? What can we learn today from the doctor and researcher Dr. Luigi di Bella, who struggled throughout his life for the truth in medicine, to meet himself and the ethical standards of his profession? These examples from the history of time may be so different, they have one thing in common: they prove that socially relevant decisions were always made by individuals. The social and constitutional State, as we know it today a matter of course, was more than hard fought for in the past. The power of conscience has historical personalities as models by Teresa M.
Taddonio, author of Italian descent now living in Cologne, in her new work”a colorful Assembled collage of historical political and social period pictures and biographical sketches, which rounded off with interviews with contemporary witnesses such as the head of the domestic policy Department of Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Dr. Heribert Prantl and the radio journalist Kristof Wachsmuth. She discussed using historical examples from different eras, how conscience decisions have influenced the policy today and why they are essential for a healthy future of our society. For conscience decisions of historical figures serve as examples of Socrates, Luther and Galileo up to figures of resistance and the civil rights movement in the Third Reich such as von Stauffenberg, the siblings Scholl and the politician Carlo Levi. As people nowadays who used journalists Gerhard Wisnewski and Roberto Saviano, as well as the ex-Communard Rainer Langhans and Fritz Teufel two icons of the German student movement. Specifically, what connects the named persons and their respective roles in the history? They all have in common, that they remain true to yourself and your own beliefs, which have known despite threats, pressure and without regard to their own physical integrity to their ideals and the truth”, explains Teresa M.