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Original Title:	Existenzphilosophie: Drei Vorlesungen Gehalten Am Freien Deutschen Hochstift in Frankfurt A.M., September 1937
ISBN:	0812210107 (ISBN13: 9780812210101)
Edition Language:	English

Philosophy of Existence

Karl Jaspers

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 202 Users | 9 Reviews

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Title	:	Philosophy of Existence
Author	:	Karl Jaspers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1971 by University of Pennsylvania Press (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Psychology

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Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. 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. Jaspers used the occasion to offer an account of the cultural and intellectual situation from which existentialism emerged as well as a summary of his own philosophy.

The book serves three purposes today: it brings the many strands of the existential movement into focus; it provides an overview of Jaspers's own philosophical position; and it demonstrates by example that philosophy need not be irrational, antiscientific, journalistic, or homiletic in order to be existential and engage. In this short book Jaspers provides a corrective for the popular view of existentialism as a pessimistic, irrationalist philosophy. He maintains that it is, rather part of mainstream of Western philosophy--the form that philosophy has taken in our day.

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I was thrilled to read Jaspers' short book Philosophy of Existence. For Jaspers, philosophy is different from science but necessary for science, and conversely science is necessary for philosophy, for at least the function of defining the boundaries of philosophizing. Moreover, philosophy is different from both science and religion, yet is bound to both. Religion is the source from which philosophizing springs. Science is essential to philosophy and one must know science in order to learn how to

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I just reread this. This book is a perfect introduction for someone interested in the (post)modern German flavor of existentialism, and at 99 pages, it's a very manageable read (I started it yesterday and finished it today, for example). Jaspers divides the work into three parts: Being, Truth, and Reality. The chapter on Being is a particularly excellent summation of participation in knowledge of an aspect of a dynamic Being. Later chapters, while still good, are somewhat vague or oversimple if

I did not care for this book. If I were to as I am now to have went to the lectures that this book was made from, then I would have either fallen asleep or walked out. And maybe that has to do with the philosophy that has come before I have read this book. And it's not that I am against the general topics of this book Being, Truth, and Reality. In the most basic way, the thing I have against Jaspers and specifically this book is that he feels like a philosophical defeatist. If you read the

"There is an ancient saying that in the sciences a little knowledge leads away from faith, but that complete knowledge leads back to it.....We can apply the saying about the sciences to philosophy: a little philosophy leads away from reality, but complete philosophy leads back to it." Jaspers

I was thrilled to read Jaspers' short book Philosophy of Existence. For Jaspers, philosophy is different from science but necessary for science, and conversely science is necessary for philosophy, for at least the function of defining the boundaries of philosophizing. Moreover, philosophy is different from both science and religion, yet is bound to both. Religion is the source from which philosophizing springs. Science is essential to philosophy and one must know science in order to learn how to

Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community, and a jurist father. He showed an early interest in philosophy, but his father's experience with the legal system undoubtedly influenced his decision to study law at university. It soon became clear that Jaspers did not particularly enjoy law, and he switched to studying medicine in 1902.Jaspers graduated from