Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers
Jaspers in 1946
KamundaganKarl Theodor Jaspers
(1883-02-23)23 Pebrero 1883
Oldenburg, German Empire
Kagadanan26 Pebrero 1969(1969-02-26) (edad 86)
Basel, Switzerland
EdukasyonUniversity of Heidelberg
(MD, 1908)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolNeo-Kantianism (early)Existentialism (late)
Existential phenomenology[1] (late)
Main interests
Psychiatry, theology, philosophy of history
Notable ideas
Axial Age; coining the term Existenzphilosophie; Dasein and Existenz as the two states of being, subject–object split (Subjekt-Objekt-Spaltung); theory of communicative transcendence, limit situation

Si Karl Theodor Jaspers (Pebrero 23, 1883 – Pebrero 26, 1969) iyo an Aleman na psychiatrist asin pilosopo na igwa nin makusog na impluwensya sa modernong teolohiya, psychiatry, asin pilosopiya. Pagkatapos na pinatuod asin nagpraktis nin psychiatry, si Jaspers kuminiling sa pilosopikal na paghapot asin nagprobar na diskubrihon an inobatibong pilosopikal na sistema. Pighihiling siya bilang sarong mayor na exponent nin eksistensyalismo sa Alemanya, minsan ngani dai niya inako an siring na pagmidbid.

  1. Ernesto Spinelli (2007). Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World, Sage, p. 52: "Karl Jaspers can be considered to be among the earliest direct attempts to apply existential phenomenology to psychotherapy".
  2. Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, The Heidegger–Jaspers Correspondence (1920–1963), Humanity Books, 2003.