Dr. Gabriele Maria Sigg

Philosopher & Sociologist

Current Work & Focus

Editor in Chief, Beautyfull Life Magazine | 2023 – present

Writing a book about feminine access to knowledge and
feminine philosophy presented in a novel.
Probably published in 2024

Academic Background

Lecturer at World Ethos Institute, University of Tübingen | 2019 – present

Lecturer at Department of Education and Social Sciences, University of Cologne | 2020 – 2021

Lecturer at Department for Cultural Sciences, University of Regensburg | 2018 – 2019

Ph.D. in Sociology / Philosophy at Humboldt-University in Berlin | Topic “Honor as a Basis of Society and bridging East & West” | German-Turkish Supervisor Team (Mimar-Sinan University of Fine Arts Istanbul) | 2012 – 2017

M.A. in Sociology / Cultural Sciences at Regensburg University | 2004 – 2009

Additional Studies in Philosophy & Ethics at Regensburg University | 2005 – 2008

Intercultural Experiences

Spain | Several stays from early childhood on, intercultural exchange with the Au-Pair-child of my oldest sister, so Spain become my second home | 1990 – 2003 | 2022 – present

Turkey | Research for my Ph.D.-thesis, several long term stays (8 months+) and fieldwork on the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul | 2008 – 2015 | present

Greece | Several long-term stays for deepening my understanding of Ancient Greek Philosophy | 2016 – 2022

New Zealand | Work & Travel after I finished my A-level | 2003 – 2004

Costa Rica & Mexiko | Deepening my understanding on Feminine & Masculine Cultures | 2022 – 2023

Several holidays in countries like Italy, Hungary, Ireland e.g.

Language Skills: German (Mother tongue), English (Fluent), Spanish & Turkish (Intermediate), Greek (Beginner)

Scholarships

Ph.D. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom | 2014 – 2016

Erasmus+ for Practical Training at the Goethe Institute in Istanbul,Turkey | 2008

DAAD | German Academic Exchange Service | Language Scholarship for Learning Turkish in Istanbul | 2008

Books

Honor and Algorithm. Freedom and Self-Responsibility in the Digital World | 2018 | German

Emotional Education. The forgotten side of the Education Debate | 2018 | Co-Editor | German

Honor revisited. The Attitude of one’s Character as the Basis of Society | Ph.D.-Thesis | 2017 | German

Speaker at Academic Conferences

Conference for Practical Philosophy | 2019 | Salzburg | Austria

Conference for Dignity at Universitätsklinikum Regensburg | 2019 | Germany

Conference of European Sociological Association | 2017 | Athens | Greece

Conference for Turkish Studies | 2016 | Hamburg | Germany

German Sociological Association, Section Economic Sociology | 2016 | Göttingen | Germany

Selection of Articles

Institute for Social Strategy and Global Civil Society

Does Cultural Bias prevent us from a World in Balance? The Turkish Case

The Educational Review (US)

The Honourable Merchant. Why We Not Only Need to Educate Our Minds, But Also Our Hearts

Beautyfull Life (US)

The ABC’s of Feeling

Enlightenment 2.0: Dare to Feel!

Intuition – The Feminine Form of Knowledge

Honor and Sense of Honor: Your journey to the sacred heart

Consciousness & Science Magazine (GER)

Honor and Dignity

Visionen. Spirit & Soul (GER)

Thinking Truth or Feeling Truth

QUOTES

Aristotle

"And since the middle has no name, the extremes seem to fight over it as if it were unoccupied. But where there is excess and deficiency, there is also a middle."

The Nicomachean Ethics 350 B.C.

Friedrich Schiller

"Reason has done what it can do, when it finds and establishes the law. It is the courageous will and the living feeling that must carry it out. If the Enlightenment has so far proved its victorious power so little, this is not due to the intellect, which did not know how to unveil it, but to the heart, which closed itself to it."

Aesthetical Letters 1759

Adam Smith

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."

The Theory of Moral Sentiments 1759

Georg Simmel

"The one taken into apprenticeship with a master thereby became a member of his family, etc.; in short, professional employment centralized the whole life, the political and heart life often included, in the most energetic way."

Sociology 1908

Hannah Arendt

"Every man, it was assumed, carried within himself a voice that told him what was right and what was wrong, and this regardless of the law of the land and the voices of his fellows."

Some Thoughts of Moral Philosophy 1965

Who is behind this idea?

Dr. Gabriele Sigg is the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Beautyfull Life Magazine. She studied philosophy and sociology, investigating honor as the basis of a healthy society as her Ph.D. work at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. Through examining the difference between eastern and western trading patterns by the example of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul she found the key for intercultural understanding that lies within “feeling knowledge” (east) and “thinking knowledge” (west).
She is an expert in Greek philosophy and “Deutsche Geisteswissenschaft” (German Poets and Thinkers). Dr. Sigg translates the original Western spiritual and personal character development ideas for a fulfilled life into modern language. Through personal experience and her professional expertise in philosophy and sociology, she envisioned the importance of Emotional & Heart Education not to repeat the unproductive cycles of male-female / matriarchy-patriarchy / mind-emotional-polarization. Instead, her mission is to create a balanced society that embodies love, freedom, and honor (justice). www.gabrielesigg.com

Published Books

PRAISE

Dr. Peter Michel

Dear Greek soul!! It was with pleasure that I edited your book. It looks like it has skipped 2500 years and rushed straight from the Parthenon to my Bavarian Village.”

Publisher "Honor & Algorithm"

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bernhardt

It is precisely through emotional education, as a complement to rationality, that can help understand and respond to people's souls in Non-Western Societies. However, it is also essential in Western societies - as an important complement to thinking.

Lawyer

Prof. Dr. Peter Hubral

I view Gabriele, like myself, a spiritual revolutionist who aims at making the world a better place to live in. She offers in her articles and books solutions to its realization. One of her major topics is "balancing the female and male polarities".

Geophysicist & Dao-Practitioner

Dr. Sebastian Gietl

“An important book at the right time! [...] Thank you for this reading.” ("Honor revisited")

Bavarian Yearbook of Ethnography

Mariette Leners

„Think with your heart, feel with your brain!“ That is how your seminars feel like. Your Courses clearly stand out from other seminars and possibly point in a new direction on unresigned paths.

Professional Musician & Student

Andreas Seiverth

“It would be wished for that [...] the critical food for thought [...] find resonance in adult education science.” ("Emotional Education")

Forum Adult Education

Student

“Cultivating Heart Qualities was something completely new for me and I shared that knowledge with my friends. Never did a seminar change and shape myself and my social circle so deeply positive like yours”

Mail: gabriele.sigg@emotional-education.org