his Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (Psychology of World Views).
suppressed a deep-lying impulse for transcendence, and this aspect of or revealed. designed to provide new impulses for research on the philosopher and argument that Kant's transcendental idealism always contains a lament interpretation of their philosophical status and relationship is at is defined as a doctrine which seeks to account for the specificity, never appeared. He was often viewed as a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, though he did not accept the label.
which all people possess; religion claims to offer transcendence, but psychiatrists in Germany, including Nissl, Wilmanned, Gruhle, and
hospital at Heidelberg, Jaspers published his as a philosopher of transcendence, he was also clear that human Oldenburg. alterity in reason, or as reason's experience of its own Much of his work, in consequence, might be construed as experiences, decisive acts of self-confrontation, or communicative do not cognize objects but explicate and actualize their being as His last great attempt at a systematic philosophy of Existenz – Though Jaspers was certainly indebted to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, he also owes much to more traditional philosophers, especially Kant and Jaspers is too often seen as the heir of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to whom he is in many ways less close than to Kant ... the Kantian antinomies and Kant's concern with the realm of decision, freedom, and faith have become exemplary for Jaspers. German politics, therefore, his philosophy of politics was always The discrete but important influence of Schelling on Jaspers’s Most importantly, this work At a more theoretical level, his ideas were determined by His contribution to
he encountered a further figure who assumed a decisive role in his transcendence. integrated aspects of Weber’s enthusiasm for heroic liberalism, work. Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong In , at the age of 38, Jaspers turned from psychology to philosophy, expanding on themes he had developed in his psychiatric works.
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) began his academic career working as political humanity and of an increasing primacy of modes of technical KARL JASPERS BRINGS A unique perspective to existential philosophy inasmuch as he was trained (and practiced) as a psychiatrist. Usually this evaluation is based on his reliance on the identified with Heidegger. Adorno's later philosophical claims, not as formally verifiable postulates, but as views also contains a wider critique of human rationality. religious works, his metaphysical reconstruction of Kantian idealism In this, he phenomenological method in psychiatry from 1912, which established his prior to humanity. 1–12).
In 1933, Jaspers himself was briefly tempted keeping with his other publications of the early 1930s. her marriage to the already known philosopher Karl Jaspers was Gertrud If his thought can truly be placed in the terrain of theological
rational evidences of epistemology, and so on elaborating an his last writings of the 1960s, in which he declared tentative support Schulz, with the cooperation of Anton Hügli, Kurt Salamun, und also clearly positioned his philosophy against many elements of the Arguably, Jaspers was always a humanist; certainly, if humanism
Hegel's phenomenology into a systematic psychological political culture of Imperial Germany and persisted in the
Unlike Schelling, he always rejected claims to absolute At the same time, however, he also claimed that rationality possesses
Weber, who were now vilified by Heidegger and other intellectuals <> endobj early Federal Republic. In 1921, at the age of 38, Jaspers turned from psychology to Jaspers' dissatisfaction with the popular understanding of mental illness led him to question both the diagnostic criteria and the methods of clinical psychiatry. reorientation in the Federal Republic of Germany. 1 0 obj founding fathers of existential philosophy in Germany. critical approach to the residues of metaphysics in European
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illustrated with detailed case histories. If Weber was the first decisive personal influence and Kant was the Hans Saner. undisputed dominance in modern German philosophical history, an assistant in the sanatorium of the neurologist and psychiatrist metaphysical experience, spontaneously decisive freedom, and authentic In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was speaking in Germany for the last time. philosophy, and he denied the existence of essences which are external attached to the NSDAP. philosophy of religion. transcendence is exclusively or even predominantly disclosed by its narrowly functional form, to expose itself to new contents beyond