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Reason and Existenz
work by Jaspers
Also known as: “Vernunft und Existenz”
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discussed in biography
- In Karl Jaspers: Conflict with the Nazi authorities
…entitled Vernunft und Existenz (Reason and Existenz, 1955), appeared; in 1936 a book on Nietzsche; in 1937 an essay on Descartes; in 1938 a further work preliminary to his logic, entitled Existenzphilosophie (Philosophy of Existence, 1971). Unlike many other famous intellectuals of that time, he was not prepared to…
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existentialist thought
- In existentialism: Methodological issues in existentialism
…his Vernunft und Existenz (1935; Reason and Existenz), becomes “manifest to itself and as such real, if, with, through and by another existence, it arrives at itself.” Such activity, however, is never consummated. Thus, when the impossibility of its achievement is recognized, it is changed into faith, into the recognition…
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