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Philosophical Faith and Its Ambiguities
An analysis of the strengths and ambiguities in Jaspers’ concept of philosophical faith in three related contexts: language, religion, and value. The linguistic and semantic context discusses subtle difference...
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Theological Reflections on the Nature of Nature: Revolution, Reformation, Restoration
In his contribution to Habermas’s Stichworte zur ‘geistigen Situation der Zeit’ (1979), Jürgen Moltmann provides a retrospective analysis of reformation, revolution, and liberation within the context of German th...
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Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and Theology
The possibility and prospect of a phenomenological theology is a difficult but recurrent question. Recent works by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Steven Laycock, however, provide considerable help with respect to...
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The shape of modern French and German philosophy
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Renunciation and metaphysics: An examination of dialectic in Hölderlin and Hegel during their Frankfurt period
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Transcending and Existenz
Just as Socrates raised the question of self in response to the plethora of inconclusive materialist worldviews which preceded him, so also Jaspers’ second formal mode of transcending, Existenzerhellung, introduc...
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Transcending in Historical Consciousness
In Jaspers’ historical work as in the formally philosophical, it is the principle of “transcending-thinking” as hic et nunc that compels the reader to interpretation and judgement. Jaspers states: “Genuine interp...
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Transcending in World-Orientation
Jaspers’ description of the nature and meaning of Weltorientierung occupies the entire first volume of Philosophie. In this chapter we will focus on three formal aspects of this analysis that are essential to obt...
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Transcending in Speculative Metaphysics
In the previous two sections we delineated world and self as the extrinsic and intrinsic modalities of transcending-thinking. In each of these moments we noted the decisive role of “disjunction” and “recoil” w...
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The Successors and Critics of Karl Jaspers
It was Jaspers’ articulation of “the boundary situation” which, in Hans Gadamer’s view, redirected German philosophy in the 20th century more than any other single factor because it asked for a level of “exist...
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Jaspers and Kant
Jaspers stated frequently that Max Weber influenced him more than any other person.1 True as this may be biographically, the fact remains that formally and historically Jaspers’ philosophy is virtually unthinkabl...
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Transcending-Thinking as Hermeneutic Philosophizing
Although Jaspers rarely refers to his philosophy as hermeneutical it is hermeneutical throughout, for it is an interpretation of Existenz in relation to Transcendence. There are perhaps two primary reasons why he...
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Jaspers and Platonic Idealism
The bond between Jaspers and Plato is deep and fascinating. Indeed, it is impossible to survey and adjudicate the significance of transcending-thinking as a primary motif in Jaspers’ thought without a consider...
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Unfolding the Enfolding: Jaspers and Mysticism
That Jaspers does not consider himself a mystic is not at all surprising since the term mystic is so poorly understood and almost always misused. “All our knowledge,” he states repeatedly and emphatically, “remai...
