For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is a… - Karl Jaspers

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For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

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About Karl Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers (23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher. Among his most well known contributions is his idea of the Axial Age [Achsenzeit].

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Native Name: Karl Theodor Jaspers
Alternative Names: Karl Theodor Jasper
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To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

“Philosophy and Science”, World Review Magazine (March 1950).

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