The Germans: Karl Jaspers
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A lecture exploring the life and work of the under-appreciated German thinker Karl Jaspers. Delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College.
www.wescecil.com for more information and a copy of the handout with the quotes.
As a German and a philosopher I would say that Karl Jaspers is a Giant of philosophy and one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century on this planet. Sadly Germans never liked Jaspers much, so he is more like an unloved step child for German community of so called philosophers. It was for a reason, that he left Germany in 1948, after he and his wife survived Nazi Germany.
Thank you very much for this lecture. I think Jaspers was one of the last great thinkers and he touches one of the most important questions that could lead us to a more authentic and individual way of thinking itself: "Think about your relationship
to an unanswerable question." And he was on the right path by trying to reconnect transcendence with the postmodern, skeptical existentialist attitude independently of any known religion that emerged in their respective times, though rooted in their essences. His thinking urgently needs follow-up....
Ah very much looking forward to the hannah arendt lecture!
What a joy to stumble upon this. Loved listening to your lecture. Thanks. Jespers feels so relevant to the state of the world at the moment.
Karl Jaspers sounds like exactly my kind of philosopher. And he takes inspiration from two of the ones who were already my favorites, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Gonna have to look into him some more, add to the list...
Thank you Wes for a very insightful and inspiring and witty lecture on Jasper. I thought it was fabulous. Xx
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I know Jaspers - we even share a birthday! Wonderful, lively lecture.
Thanks for this useful talk. I do have one remark regarding your comments on Arendt's love affair with Heidegger, and her reasons for ending it. Their affair began in early 1925 and lasted about one year. Arendt ended it not because of Heidegger's politics, but because she wanted to devote herself fully to her philosophical studies. She left Marburg University, where Heidegger taught, and went to Heidelberg, where she completed her dissertation under Jaspers. She and Heidegger continued to exchange affectionate letters in the following few years.
Heidegger's conservative nationalism took a turn towards support for the Nazis in 1933, after Hitler came to power.
Hello, Thank you very much for this important clarification on Heidegger and Ardent's short affair and her completing her dissertation under Jasper's.
You forgot to remember Max Weber in the middle.
Great lecture!
Very interesting!
Hi Wes, can you please do a review of the book W.I.L.D., What Is Life Definitively by A. Radical? I'd be very interested in your thoughts. Thanks.
Is it the fact that I have too much energy, or could it be the pork that I had for lunch??
Was hoping for stuff about Axial Age.
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Charles Beau de l'Air Thanks for the link
Ravi?!
Any chance you'll do a lecture on Ayn Rand???
Count me in, I would definitely also be interested in Wes's take on Ayn Rand!
No serious human will dedicate any meaningful work towards spreading Rand's coce-filled nonsense.
ㅤItsCronk hear, hear!
the speaker keeps saying that jaspers was very clear. false. jaspers too was very vague and unclear. even his reason and existenz which are lectures are very tough to grasp.
I listened to some of his lectures and they were quite easy to grasp at least on the surface
What a poor description of Heidegger!
He does have a whole lecture recording on Heidegger, that one might be a bit fairer to him. Not sure myself, haven't listened to it, and don't know much about Heidegger but his name anyway to be able to tell.
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