Immediately upon graduation he became a volunteer assistant in psychiatry at Heidelberg. He received his MD from Heidelberg in 1909, upon completion of his dissertation on Heimweh und Verbrechen (Nostalgia and crime). ![]() Jaspers studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, and medicine at Berlin, G öttingen, and Heidelberg. His father was a banker, constable, and jurist. Jaspers was born in 1883 in the East Frisian city of Oldenburg. Jaspers's religious thought, although it ignored Aristotelianism and Scholasticism, was deeply influenced by Plotinus, Giordano Bruno, Benedict de Spinoza, and Friedrich von Schelling and gives a modern phenomenological restatement of many of the classical religious intuitions of humankind. Furthermore, Husserl's ideas of the transcendental ego and transcendental consciousness conform to Jaspers's descriptions of the inner self ( Existenz ) and the outermost boundaries of the world ( das Umgreifende ). Jaspers used Husserl's method of descriptive phenomenology and adopted Husserl's concept of intentionality as a central function of the self. The influence of Edmund Husserl is also apparent, although it is perhaps unconscious, since it is mostly unacknowledged. Jaspers was influenced especially by Immanuel Kant, but also by S øren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, whom he admired because they were prophets who articulated the structure of their existence, because they were not academic philosophers, because their thinking welled up directly from their personal existence, and because they illustrated the axiom that philosophic thinking begins in the attempt to communicate to another the nature of one's Existenz. Philosophy need not be metaphysics it can only illuminate some of the potentialities of an individual existence, an existence that is ineffable, unique, and free. ![]() Genuine philosophy arises directly out of the problems confronting the individual philosopher in his existential, or historical, situation. We must live philosophy, since we cannot meaningfully paraphrase its conclusions. To appreciate philosophic insights we must -as Socrates and Sigmund Freud saw -arrive at them ourselves. Philosophy is an activity, a becoming, not a state of being or a body of facts. As Jaspers saw it, philosophy begins where reason has suffered shipwreck. He was suspicious of contemporary overconfidence in science and, as an antidote, stresses the irrational in man. He spoke with authority to the nonphilosophic mind because of his deep and successful roots in medicine and psychology. Jaspers fulfilled the commonsense image of the philosopher through his vital concern with the contemporary political situation and his trenchant reflections on the threats to man's integrity and fulfillment posed by twentieth-century social, economic, and political institutions. It can be best characterized as a disciplined and organized description of the critical fringes of human existence, such as impenetrable limits, unmitigated freedom, and the experienced indefinite expanse of space, time, and consciousness. His philosophy is neither linguistic analysis nor metaphysics. Appearances notwithstanding, he was perhaps the most systematic of all existentialist philosophers. Yet careful and extensive reading of his works shows him to be a rigorous and responsible thinker. ![]() He was a prolific writer with a prolix style that is often inelegant, superficial, sentimental, and unclear and that over the years showed itself to be repetitious. Thank you, Randy Bucholtz, Owner Anaheim, CA Email JasperEnginesUSA Jaspers was one of the architects of contemporary existentialism and one of the first philosophers to use the term existentialist. Call Randy at Jasper Engines USA today or email us below. All Engines, Transmissions and Differentials, Remanufactured by Jasper, Include a Nationwide 3 year/100,000 mile parts and labor Nationwide Transferable Warranty. Randy has installed hundreds of Jasper Products for over 20 years. Their Repair Center is about two Miles from Disneyland. Randy's is our warranty center for most of LA and all of Orange County. Both Randy and Leonard are the #1 installers for all our Jasper Products here in Anaheim, California 92804. Randy’s Automotive also Known as The Anaheim Automotive Expert has been in business for over 40 years. The #1 Installer of Jasper Engines and Transmissions! ![]() Today we are the nation's largest remanufacturer of gas and diesel engines, Plus transmissions and differentials in the USA. JASPER Engines and Transmissions is a fully employee owned company and has been in business since 1942.
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