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In this chapter, the author argues that Herder’s theory of sympathy is informed by his educational practices as a teacher and preacher in Riga (1764 to 1769). In his Riga sermons, Herder develops a model of sympathy that transforms classical rhetorics insofar as it describes the sermon as a mutual interaction between preacher and congregation, thus emphasizing the decisive role of the listening public. This model is informed not only by Herder’s theological, but also by his anthropological and aesthetic reflections in the Riga constellation: Sermon and service are conceptualized as the ideal sphere of observing the ‘modus operandi’ of human feeling and cognition—and of cultivating it at the same time. Within the overarching framework of sympathy, the preacher has to develop specific techniques of “pathos” to activate the senses of his audience and particular ways of empathy to understand its feelings. Most explicitly, Herder develops this model of preaching in his farewell-sermon from Riga in 1769. At the same time, this sermon shows that homiletics are embedded within the specific social and cultural milieus that Herder encounters in German and Latvian congregations in Riga. Last but not least, his farewell-sermon is a medium to defend himself and his concept of preaching against antipathy-driven attacks from local Orthodox-Lutheran clergy.
Many universities record the lectures being held in their facilities to preserve knowledge and to make it available to their students and, at least for some universities and classes, to the broad public. The way with the least effort is to record the whole lecture, which in our case usually is 90 min long. This saves the labor and time of cutting and rearranging lectures scenes to provide short learning videos as known from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), etc. Many lecturers fear that recording their lectures and providing them via an online platform might lead to less participation in the actual lecture. Also, many teachers fear that the lecture recordings are not used with the same focus and dedication as lectures in a lecture hall. In this work, we show that in our experience, full lectures have an average watching duration of just a few minutes and explain the reasons for that and why, in most cases, teachers do not have to worry about that.