If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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About Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a 19th-century German swiss psychiatrist and philosopher. Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality