The dissatisfaction with every particular mode of communication (c) leads to a will to total c, a will which can only be one and which is the authent… - Karl Jaspers

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The dissatisfaction with every particular mode of communication (c) leads to a will to total c, a will which can only be one and which is the authentically driving and binding force in all the modes of c.
But this will to communicate, which actualizes itself out of potential Existenz through reason in the three modes of encompassing, itself does not reach fulfillment. For it is continuously bound within the three modes and ,also, aroused and moved, yet it is, so to speak muddied in its mode. And finally, it finds itself limited through its own , as well as others' historicity. This historicity both brings communication in its depths before the multiplicity of truth and also lets it wrecked.
[***] It follows thirdly that ,if truth in communication can never be definitively won and established- truth like communication seeing itself, so to speak, disappear before Transcendence, change before Being- nevertheless, its resolute actualization brings forth also the deepest opennes fro Transcendence. Truth as Communicability from Reason and Existenz, Karl Jaspers

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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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Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such — an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive.

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