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Karl Jaspers

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Noun1.Karl Jaspers - German psychiatrist (1883-1969)


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Dissecting the "place of passion in the life of the mind," Lilla starts, not too surprisingly, with the philosopher Martin Heidegger, examining his friendship with Karl Jaspers, his love affair with Hannah Arendt, and his willful embrace of Nazism.
Most of the rest--including Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, and Michel Foucault--are wobbly Little Leaguers.
Macquarrie provides nine such portraits (Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Krishna, Lao-tzu, Moses, Muhammad, Socrates, and Zoroaster) by extending the so-called time frame of the axial period described by Karl Jaspers to the rise of Islam.
 
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