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Karl Jaspers · 1949
A philosophical examination of human history from prehistory to the present and future, arguing that awareness of our place within the vast span of human existence—between prehistoric obscurity and boundless future possibilities—is essential to understanding the present moment. Jaspers explores the Axial Period as a structuring principle of world history and discusses the role of science, technology, and faith in shaping humanity's trajectory.
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History finds its axis in a simultaneous spiritual breakthrough across civilizations, binding humanity toward a single, open future.
transformation
The Axial Period assimilates everything that remains. From it world history receives the only structure and unity that has endured.
OGH-RC-014The changes that occurred in the reality of man's existence, while he was creating science and technology, are in horrifying contrast to these palpable achievements.
OGH-RC-073faith-and-doubt
If the world is God's creation, then everything that is, as the creation of God, is worthy of being known; cognition is like a re-thinking of the thoughts of God.
OGH-RC-085More deeply shaken spirits were invaded by dread of the possibility that the liberty of all men might be lost.
OGH-RC-144self-and-identity
We and the present in which we live are situated in the midst of history. This present becomes null and void if it loses itself within the narrow horizon of the day.
OGH-RC-002We sense the fateful question as to how we can, in faith, become specifically human beings, looking back toward our origin.
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