Karl Jaspers: Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker

ISBN-13: 9783476058959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 157 str.

Kurt Salamun

Spis treści

Preface

Siglenverzeichnis

1. Stages of an arduous but happy life    

2. The encounter with two controversial thinkers: Max Weber and Martin Heidegger 

3, What is the point of being human?

4. Liberal ethos of humanity, morality and education

5. Transcendence and cipher metaphysics instead of religious belief in a personal God

6. Philosophical belief in reason as an alternative to religious belief in revelation 

7. History and the Axial Age in world history 

8. World history of philosophy and the vision of a future "world philosophy"

9. To understand politics

10. Politics, Reason and Democratic Culture

11. Provocative statements on German politics of the time

12. On the versatility of Jaspers' thinking

13. Effect and timeliness

bibliography

Person register

O autorze

Kurt Salamun is Professor i. R. for philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.

Blurb

This volume offers a review of the dangerous and difficult life of Karl Jaspers as well as an introduction to his extensive work and work in the fields of psychiatry, philosophy and liberal political education.

This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Karl Jaspers by Kurt Salamun, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.