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Karl Jaspers · 1937
A philosophical treatise on existentialism and human existence, originally delivered as lectures in 1937 Frankfurt, arguing that existentialism represents a rational continuation of Western philosophy concerned with concrete human situations rather than abstract theorizing.
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What this book knows
Human existence is illuminated not by fixed essences but by the encompassing—reason, transcendence, and authentic Existenz pushing past every finite answer.
self-and-identity
Man's essence consists not in the ideal that can be fixed, but only in his unlimited task, by the accomplishment of which he penetrates to the origin from whence he came.
PE-RC-028As possible Existenz we can become ourselves only with another Existenz: even Existenz is not a self-contained unity. If there is unity, it is only in transcendence.
PE-RC-055faith-and-doubt
The impulse to go beyond the multiplicity to the one universal truth remains undiminished. If I confine myself to this road, I lose the truth I live by.
PE-RC-043These symbols cannot preserve for him the exclusiveness of the specifically sacred. They remain truly symbols only if they are infinite, not enclosed in any dogmatism.
PE-RC-061obedience-and-authority
Authority taken on faith is the only source of genuine education affecting man's nature itself. If he grows up without authority, Nothingness stares him in the face.
PE-RC-039To live unquestioningly by authority is impossible for anyone who has ever really philosophized. It is one thing to live in authority and another to philosophize about it.
PE-RC-042Illuminates
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