Reason and Existenz : five lectures / Karl Jaspers ; Translated with an introd. by William Earle.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: [New York : Noonday Press, 1955]Description: 157 p. ; 22 cmUniform titles:
  • Vernunft und Existenz. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 193.9
LOC classification:
  • B3279.J33 V414
Contents:
First lecture : origin of the contemporary philosophic situation (the historical meaning of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche) -- Second through fourth lectures : basic ideas for the clarification of reason and Existenz: -- Second lecture: the encompassing -- Third lecture: truth as communicability -- Fourth lecture: priority and limits of rational thinking -- Fifth lecture : possibilities for contemporary philosophizing.
Summary: The intent of Jaspers' philosophizing then is simply to recall us to our authentic situation. This recall is not itself a doctrine; it is only the stimulus to an inward action each must perform for himself in communication with others. Jaspers' Existenz-philosophy is thus an attempt to consider and enact human honesty; it is philosophy, not as wisdom, but as the love of wisdom.
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First lecture : origin of the contemporary philosophic situation (the historical meaning of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche) -- Second through fourth lectures : basic ideas for the clarification of reason and Existenz: -- Second lecture: the encompassing -- Third lecture: truth as communicability -- Fourth lecture: priority and limits of rational thinking -- Fifth lecture : possibilities for contemporary philosophizing.

The intent of Jaspers' philosophizing then is simply to recall us to our authentic situation. This recall is not itself a doctrine; it is only the stimulus to an inward action each must perform for himself in communication with others. Jaspers' Existenz-philosophy is thus an attempt to consider and enact human honesty; it is philosophy, not as wisdom, but as the love of wisdom.

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