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Karl Jaspers

カール・ヤスパース

Kāru Yasupāsu

別名: Karl Theodor Jaspers

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1883-02-23 (Oldenburg)
死没
1969-02-26 (Basel) 86歳
国籍
German, Swiss
言語
German
宗教
Christianity
居住地歴
Oldenburg → Heidelberg → Munich → Basel

経歴

職業
psychiatrist, philosopher
活動期間
1908年〜1969年
所属
University of Heidelberg, University of Basel
影響を受けた人物
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kant, Plato, Max Weber
影響を与えた人物
Paul Ricœur, Hans-Georg Gadamer

学歴

University of Heidelberg
Faculty of Law / Law
期間: 1900-1902
国: Germany
Studied law for three semesters before switching to medicine

受賞歴

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
1958
主催: German Book Trade Peace Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Honorary Citizen of Oldenburg
1963
主催: City of Oldenburg
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

General Psychopathology

1913年 Psychiatry

Established diagnostic criteria for mental illness, distinguishing primary and secondary delusions

DelusionsPsychopathology

全著作

  • Psychology of Worldviews
  • General Psychopathology
  • The Question of German Guilt

作風・主題

文体
Existential philosophyPhenomenology
頻出モチーフ
TranscendenceLimit situationAxial Age

評価・遺産

Strongly influenced modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy, known as a major figure in existentialism

大衆文化への影響

  • Quoted in BBC documentary 'The Nazis: A Warning from History'

引用

  • That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented.
    出典: On the Second World War (1946年)

豆知識

  • His wife Gertrud was Jewish, facing threat of concentration camp during Nazi era
  • Died on his wife's 90th birthday