Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers

Summary of Karl Jaspers...

Karl Jaspers started out small and became very powerful into his future. He went from a doctor to phycologist to famous world philosopher. He had achieved great things in his lifetime. He had many bumps in the road and tough terrain to overcome, but in the end he made it through and had inspired many others along the way.

Karl Jaspers-

1883-1969

What were his Philosophies and what do the mean?

Phenomenology

It is the science of phenomena, as distinct from that of the nature of being.

• Phenomenology

&

Existentialism

• Existentialism

It is a philosophical theory or approach that shows the existence of any individual person as a free and responsible person that determines their own development through acts of the will.

Examples of each

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. (You can somewhat relate this to psychology)

Existentialism is a theory in which life is often seen as absurd or pointless. Why are we here? What is our purpose? What are we supposed to do?

How did people react to is ideas?

Axail Age- The age between 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. where similar revolutionary thinking appeared in Persia, India, China and the Occident.

One of Karls beliefs was in God, but the one thing he didnt agree with was how Jesus was killed. He doesn't agree with the Biblical version of his death or that Jesus was ever on earth and killed.

How did he become known?

About Karl...

And for his belifes in that many people and the Catholic Church did not agree with him and chose to ban his ideas to the point where he was no longer allowed to go to church in his area.

What were his ideas?

Lived from 1883-1969.

He was born in Oldenburg, Germany

He lived in an age that witnessed far-reaching political changes.

After the collapse of National Socialist regime in Germany, Karl emerged as a powerful spokesperson for moral-democratic education and reorientation in the Federal Republic of Germany.

After being that spokesperson, people became interested in his work and the reasons why he said what he said. So people started to buy his books and he became fairly popular as the more and more people bacame interested.

His mother and father, Carl William Jaspers, who was an attorney and Henriette Jaspers, who was a farmer.

He later married Gertrud Mayer Jaspers, they got married in 1910.

Karl went to school at Heidelberg University in Germany and graduated with a Doctoral degree of medicine and Psychiatric degree.

Karls parents both had disablities.

His mother had weak knees and his father had poor eyesight, which is one of the reasons he went to school for medicine was to help people with disablities like his parents.

Karl and his wifes' home had been raided during WWII by german soliders ,but karl and his wife had been saved by American troops on April 1st, 1945.

While the german troops invaded they had destoyed all of karl's work and wirtings he had made over his years from graduating college.

What were some of his contributions?

Karl had mainly focused on Politics during the early years of his life along with the big question of "What is the meaning of life?".

He had written many books on psychology and his own interests, but the publication of those book were then banned in 1938.

He contributed to people with disabliites by going to school for a docotral degree to help people with disablities.

Some of his work such as the "Axial Age" was contributed to the people of the 19th century, but two men named Rudolf Bultmann and Richard Lunenburg did not agree with his ideas on the Axail Age.