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djp1974.bsky.social
Unable to will my relation to Transcendence, I can only hold on to a readiness for it, once I have heard the transcendent voice in myself.

- #KarlJaspers
August 4, 2026 at 7:15 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
#Faith is the fulfilling and moving element in the depths of man, in which man is linked, above and beyond himself, with the Origin of his being.

- #KarlJaspers
July 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
To philosophize is to learn how to die or to rise to divinity—to know being as Being.

- #KarlJaspers, ‘Way to Wisdom’
June 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Origin and goal are unknown to us, utterly unknown by any kind of knowledge. They can only be felt in the glimmer of ambiguous symbols. Our actual existence moves between these two poles.

- #KarlJaspers
May 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
anthempress.bsky.social
Review alert! ✍️ ‘The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers' edited by Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth has been reviewed in the ‘The British Journal of Psychiatry’ by Femi Oyebode. Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/4t9p65kd #AnthemPress #HansJoas #MatthiasBormuth #UniOldenburg #KarlJaspers #FemiOyebode #bookreview
April 21, 2026 at 5:13 AM
judithbeyer.bsky.social
In his laudatio, the cultural senator of Hamburg spoke of the wish to “reclaim Arendt for us”, ignoring that #Arendt had characterized the purpose of a laudatio in her own laudatio to #KarlJaspers the year before as having to focus on “the dignity of the person” www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM7q...
Karl Jaspers - Laudatio von Hannah Arendt
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March 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
avniodabasi.bsky.social
"İnsan hiç bir şeydir!
Sonsuzluklar arasında zeminini yitirmiş bir şekilde durmaktadır. Bir araya gelmeleri olanaksız zıtlıklardan meydana gelmiştir ve sonu gelmeyen bir huzursuzluk olarak yaşamaktadır."
#KarlJaspers

Alman filozof ve psikiyatristin aramızdan ayrılışının 57. yılında saygıyla..
March 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity."

✒ #KarlJaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher, #DOTD 26 February 1969. #Philosophy
February 26, 2026 at 3:31 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

- #KarlJaspers
February 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
paulbrussee.bsky.social
Karl Jaspers
23 februari 1883 – 26 februari 1969

Sporen van transcendentie. De filosofie van Karl Jaspers - Jozef Waanders

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February 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
paulinepark.bsky.social
#KarlJaspers was born in Oldenburg #OnThisDay in 1883, becoming a psychiatrist & philosopher; the Nazis forced him to withdraw from teaching because of his Jewish wife; his #philosophy was anti-totalitarian & he warned of the dangers of #technocracy:
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February 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
paulinepark.bsky.social
Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Samuel Pepys (1633), Georg Friederich Händel (1685), George Watts (1817), César Ritz (1850), W.E.B. Du Bois (1868), #KarlJaspers (1883), Victor Fleming (1889), Erich Kästner (1899), William Shirer (1904), Louis Stokes (1925) & Régine Crespin (1926) were born #OnThisDay...
February 23, 2026 at 5:08 AM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it."

✒️ German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher #KarlJaspers was #BOTD 23 February 1883. #Philosophy
February 23, 2026 at 3:18 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
Give in neither to the past nor the future. What matters is to be entirely present.

- #KarlJaspers
February 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
For any true grasp of delusion, it is important to free ourselves from this prejudice that there has to be some poverty of intelligence at the root of it.

- #KarlJaspers
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
To philosophize is to fight for our inner independence, under all conditions.

- #KarlJaspers
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
judithbeyer.bsky.social
#KarlJaspers final two pages of his "The idea of the university" (1946) - more pertinent than ever!

"Nationalism, like everything else, forms a legitimate topic of research but cannot provide the basic direction of the university itself."
excerpt from Karl Jaspers THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY The University and the Nation Greek in origin, the idea of the university is part of the Western tradition. As a publicly endowed institution the university belongs to the state; as a privately endowed institution it is certainly part of a given national scene. In either case, it is the expression of a whole people. Seeking truth and the improvement of mankind, the university aims to stand for man's humanity par excellence. Humanttas is part of its very fiber, no matter how often and how deeply that term has changed its meaning. Thus, while every university is part of a nation, it has its sights set on goals above and beyond nationhood. Differences aside, in this respect, at least, it is akin to the idea of the church. The university proper must not take sides in the conflict between nations, even though as human beings its members have each their national allegiance. Members of the university, whether faculty, deans or the president himself, abuse their position if they should choose to hold political rallies in favor of either a particular party or of the country as a whole. They serve their nation and all mankind solely through the medium of intellectual creativity. The idea of the university suffers when abused for extraneous ends. Nationalism, like everything else, forms a legitimate topic of research but cannot provide the basic direction of the university itself. We have come to the end. Beginning with the attempt to define the nature of science and the intellectual life sustaining it, we were led to examine the university as an institution. The variety of issues which had to be raised could ob- (end of page) scure the one all-important issue: the ideal of the university which is the very lifeblood of higher education. This ideal cannot be reduced to a few simple statements but had to be brought out indirectly. May we grow ever more aware of its real meaning, and may it serve as a standard guiding our judgment of all aspects of university life. No one who does not feel its validity can be made to see it Since discussion is fruitless except where there is common ground, all we have done is put familiar facts in a new light. We are deeply committed to this ideal which has given meaning to our life; yet we lack the necessary strength to speak of it with the enthusiasm it deserves. We know that truth, striving all around us to be seen and recognized, will live or perish with our ability to realize the ideal of the university in its ever-changing forms. (end of page)
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
The only unity of the self lies in duality. It is the intelligible realm to which the unintelligible is not a limit but its own Source.

- #KarlJaspers
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
kurtfischer.bsky.social
die Politik der Gemütlichkeit und Schläue ist das tödliche Gift für die Idee der Demokratie zugunsten der Handhabung der formalen Demokratie. Auf diesem Wege graben sich Demokratie und Freiheit ihr Grab wie vor 1933.« #KarlJaspers
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September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Unable to will my relation to Transcendence, I can only hold on to a readiness for it, once I have heard the transcendent voice in myself.

- #KarlJaspers
August 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Faith is the fulfilling and moving element in the depths of man, in which man is linked, above and beyond himself, with the Origin of his being.

- #KarlJaspers
July 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
anthempress.bsky.social
Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth, editors of ‘The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers’ were interviewed by the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/mwh54xj4 #AnthemPress #HansJoas #MatthiasBormuth #HumboldtUni #UniOldenburg #KarlJaspers #hearnow
July 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
To philosophize is to learn how to die or to rise to divinity–to know being as Being.

- #KarlJaspers, 'Way to Wisdom'
June 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Origin and goal are unknown to us, utterly unknown by any kind of knowledge. They can only be felt in the glimmer of ambiguous symbols. Our actual existence moves between these two poles.

- #KarlJaspers
May 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM