Karl Jaspers : An Introduction to His Philosophy /
The thought of the late Karl Jaspers, co-founder of the existentialist movement, has long exerted a powerful influence on world opinion. But, surprisingly, though translations of his writings have appeared in over 160 editions in 16 countries, his strictly philosophical work has hitherto been largel...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1970.
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Table des matières:
- PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; JASPERS' LIFE AND WRITINGS; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: DISPUTED TOPICS; Philosophy and Life; The Pre-eminence of the Contemporary; The Philosophical Unavailability of Clarity; The Role of Demonstration in Philosophy; Current Overemphasis on the Explicit, Sensible, and Tangible; Feelings as Cognitive; Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Nonknowledge; The Elucidation of Existenz; CHAPTER II. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY; What Philosophy Owes to Science; The Nature of Science; Scientific and Philosophical World-Orientation; The Relativity of the Coercive
- The Endless and the UnendingEvidences of Pluralism; Summary of Conclusions Concerning Science and Philosophy; CHAPTER III. INSTITUTIONS AND PROFESSIONS AS GUIDES THROUGH LIFE; The State and Its Laws as Guides; Social Planning and the Welfare State; Philosophy of Existenz and Christianity; The Church as a Guide; Psychiatry as a Guide; CHAPTER IV. EXISTENTIAL FREEDOM; The Kantian Background of Jaspers' Philosophy; The Kantian Soul as It Relates to Existenz; What Existenz Is Not; Existenz as Freedom: Inadequate Conceptions; The Approach to Freedom; Choice and Resolution; CHAPTER V. COMMUNICATION
- Anomalies of Scientific DiscourseThe Deceptions of Ordinary Speech; Speech as a Weapon: Political Discussion; Deception and Self-Deception; Communication among Academic Philosophers; A Second Possibility: Philosophizing as a Cooperative Struggle for Fulfilment ; Indirect Communication; CHAPTER VI. ULTIMATE SITUATIONS; The Ultimate Situation of Historical Determinacy; Specific Ultimate Situations: Conflict; Guilt as an Ultimate Situation; The Ultimate Situation of the Questionableness of all Existence; Reactions to Antinomies; CHAPTER VII. HOW OUGHT WE TO LIVE?
- The Insufficiencies of Teleological EthicsKant's Duty-Ethics; The Source; Existenz and Transcendence; Nonknowledge and Cipher-Reading; CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCOMPASSING; Fundamental Philosophic Knowledge; The Fundamental Operation and Its Results; The Modes of the Encompassing That We Are; The Basic Mode; Consciousness in General; The Realm of Spirit; Existenz and its Historicity; The Philosophy of Reason; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX


