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News and Events October 2013 July 2013 July 2013 A 50+ Volumes annotated critical edition of Karl Jaspers' Collected Works is produced in Germany from 2012-2030
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Philosophy,
the goal of true community among men who are themselves,
has been wrought by lonely, distant individuals. In an
extravagance of agonies and certainties, they sent us
word but did not bid us follow. The experience they show
us was singular and unrepeatable. They were sacrificial
victims, so to speak, whose visions--translated into
thought--convey to us what a less hazardous fate could
not have brought to light. In our philosophizing we
revere what they proved humanly possible. We want to
catch their every word; they have made it impossible for
us to take any knowable order for the only true one. But
we ourselves philosophize in communication, not in
isolation. Our point of departure is mans relation to
man, the individuals way of dealing with the
individual. In our world, linked fellowship seems like
the true reality. Communication leads to our brightest
moments and lends weight to our life. My philosophizing
owes its every content to people who have come close to
me. I consider it true in so far as it aids
communication. Man cannot place himself above man; he can
approach only those he meets on the same level. He cannot
teach them what to do, but together they can find out
what they want and what they are. There can be solidarity
in what must animate our existence if it is to turn into
being. (Philosophy I, 1932, 2) Download or
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