Does the below highlighted "damit" refer to "genossenschaftlichen Denkansätzen"?
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Die Überzeugung von einer besonderen Kulturaufgabe des deutschen Volkes verband sich mit genossenschaftlichen Denkansätzen. Der damit in der deutschen Rechtstradition verbundene Selbstverwaltungsgedanke schien in einer Zeit, in der die Trennung von Staat und Kirche als Verfassungsgrundsatz debattiert und angenommen wurde, in gleicher Weise für den Ausbildungssektor naheliegend zu sein.
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Shorter version of earlier question about "damit"
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Re: Shorter version of earlier question about "damit"
Maybe. "Damit" can also refer to the preceding sentence as a whole. I don't know what "genossenschaftliche Denkansätze" really is.
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Re: Shorter version of earlier question about "damit"
My sense of the background context suggests that "genossenschaftlichen Denkansätzen" here means something like "thinking in terms of cooperative societal forms."
Is it possible that "damit" does not refer to anything in the sentence preceding "damit," but instead refers to "deutschen Rechtstradition" -- thus you get something like: "the Selbstverwaltungsgedanke is bound up with and in the deutschen Rechtstradition"?
Die Überzeugung von einer besonderen Kulturaufgabe des deutschen Volkes verband sich mit genossenschaftlichen Denkansätzen. Der damit in der deutschen Rechtstradition verbundene Selbstverwaltungsgedanke schien in einer Zeit, in der die Trennung von Staat und Kirche als Verfassungsgrundsatz debattiert und angenommen wurde, in gleicher Weise für den Ausbildungssektor naheliegend zu sein.
Is it possible that "damit" does not refer to anything in the sentence preceding "damit," but instead refers to "deutschen Rechtstradition" -- thus you get something like: "the Selbstverwaltungsgedanke is bound up with and in the deutschen Rechtstradition"?
Die Überzeugung von einer besonderen Kulturaufgabe des deutschen Volkes verband sich mit genossenschaftlichen Denkansätzen. Der damit in der deutschen Rechtstradition verbundene Selbstverwaltungsgedanke schien in einer Zeit, in der die Trennung von Staat und Kirche als Verfassungsgrundsatz debattiert und angenommen wurde, in gleicher Weise für den Ausbildungssektor naheliegend zu sein.
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Re: Shorter version of earlier question about "damit"
Ok, so I've thought about this with a bit clearer head (currently got the flu interfering with my concentration) and I do get it now and the answer is: Yes "damit" refers to "genossenschaftliche Denkansätze".
The key phrase is "in der deutschen Rechtstradition". "Genossenschaft" is an actual legal term meaning
"a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers"
In fact, I've copied that from the dictionary definition of "cooperative (noun)". With that definition in mind the whole Selbstverwaltung thing makes a lot more sense as a "Gesellschaft" is necessarily self-governed.
The key phrase is "in der deutschen Rechtstradition". "Genossenschaft" is an actual legal term meaning
"a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers"
In fact, I've copied that from the dictionary definition of "cooperative (noun)". With that definition in mind the whole Selbstverwaltung thing makes a lot more sense as a "Gesellschaft" is necessarily self-governed.
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Re: Shorter version of earlier question about "damit"
Outstanding. You've really made it transparent. Thanks so much! I've been trying to gnaw and worry my way into that passage on and off for a week or more.
I'm working on a cold myself, popping Vit C in 500 and 1000 mg. doses every couple of hours, which seems to cut the cold in half or better.
I hope your flu flies soon!
I'm working on a cold myself, popping Vit C in 500 and 1000 mg. doses every couple of hours, which seems to cut the cold in half or better.
I hope your flu flies soon!