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Axial age lists that time period as 800 BC to 200 BC, but Civilization#Classical Antiquity calls it 600 BCE to 400 BCE. Where did Karl Jaspers write about it, and how did he originally define it? (cross-posted to all three Talk pages) 75.5.198.37 ( talk) 17:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC) reply

I believe Jaspers' dates were 800 B.C. to 200 B.C.. Vorbee ( talk) 08:02, 13 September 2018 (UTC) reply

why this article is under (Category:Psychosis)???! this is man.

-- نسر برلين ( talk) 06:36, 1 November 2009 (UTC) reply

The article on Pedagogy of the Oppressed refers to Karl Jaspers' concept of the limit and the limit situation; however, a link from "limit-situation" in that article goes nowhere. Perhaps if this article covered the topic, which I believe is from the third chapter of Jaspers' book, Psychology of World Views, the reference from Pedagogy could be made to the mention in this article.

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

In this early work, Jaspers introduced several concepts which assumed great importance for all his work. Most importantly, this work contains a theory of the limit (Grenze). This term designates both the habitual forms and attitudes of the human mental apparatus, and the experiences of the mind as it recognizes these attitudes as falsely objectivized moments within its antinomical structure, and as it transcends these limits by disposing itself in new ways towards itself and its objects. In his early philosophy Jaspers thus ascribed central status to ‘limit situations’ (Grenzsituationen). Limit situations are moments, usually accompanied by experiences of dread, guilt or acute anxiety, in which the human mind confronts the restrictions and pathological narrowness of its existing forms, and allows itself to abandon the securities of its limitedness, and so to enter new realm of self-consciousness. In conjunction with this, then, this work also contains a theory of the unconditioned (das Unbedingte). In this theory, Jaspers argued that limit situations are unconditioned moments of human existence, in which reason is drawn by intense impulses or imperatives, which impel it to expose itself to the limits of its consciousness and to seek higher or more reflected modes of knowledge. The unconditioned, a term transported from Kantian doctrines of synthetic regress, is thus proposed by Jaspers as a vital impetus in reason, in which reasons encounters its form as conditioned or limited and desires to transcend the limits of this form. In relation to this, then, Jaspers' early psychological work also introduced, albeit inchoately, the concept of existential communication. In this, he argued that the freedom of consciousness to overcome its limits and antinomies can only be elaborated through speech: that is, as a process in which consciousness is elevated beyond its limits through intensely engaged communication with other persons, and in which committed communication helps to suspend the prejudices and fixed attitudes of consciousness. Existentially open consciousness is therefore always communicative, and it is only where it abandons its monological structure that consciousness can fully elaborate its existential possibilities. In this early doctrine of communication, Jaspers helped to shape a wider communicative and intersubjective shift in German philosophy; indeed, the resonances of his existential hermeneutics remained palpable in the much later works of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. Less obviously, however, in this doctrine he also guided early existential thinking away from its original association with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and, although assimilating Kierkegaardian elements of decisiveness and impassioned commitment, he claimed that Kierkegaard's cult of interiority, centred in the speechlessness of inner life, was a miscarried attempt to envision the conditions of human authenticity. The decision for authentic self-overcoming and cognitive unity can only occur, he argued, through shared participation in dialogue. --Lonnie Nesseler 00:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lnesseler ( talk • contribs)

"namely Paul Ricoeur (a student of Jaspers)"

This is factually incorrect. Ricoeur went out of his way on two occasions to meet Jaspers long after he was no longer a student.

142.134.96.190 ( talk) 17:52, 15 December 2014 (UTC) reply

The Section "Political Views" glosses over what Jaspers published before WW II and, in particular, his edits to subsequent editions.

Please consult the editions of the relevant texts.

142.134.96.190 ( talk) 17:54, 15 December 2014 (UTC) reply

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Back in my sixth form school days (1983-1985) I noticed that the Encyclopaedia Brittanica article on Jaspers says that Jaspers was expelled from school. Could this go in the section on Jaspers' biography? Carltonio ( talk) 21:21, 22 May 2017 (UTC) reply

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The section on Jaspers and theology says "Although he rejected religious doctrines". I always thought Jaspers was a religious existentialist who was a theist. Vorbee ( talk) 19:34, 31 May 2019 (UTC) reply