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" "For one wishing to philosophize, it is 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.
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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Thus those who are deluded into supposing that they possess being as such often endeavour to make man forget himself. Man is dissolved in fictions of being and yet these fictions themselves always conceal a possible road back to man; hidden dissatisfaction may lead to the recovery of the authentic seriousness which becomes real only in existential presence and casts off the ruinous attitude of those who take life as it is and do what they please.
Avšak každý z nás má vinu, pokud zůstal nečinný. Vina pasivity je jiná. Bezmocnost omlouvá, neúčinná smrt se morálně nepožaduje. Už Platon pokládal za samozřejmé, že je třeba skrýt se ve zlých dobách a beznadějných poměrech a zůstat naživu. Ale pasivita ví, že je morálně vinna každým selháním, které zanedbává povinnost chopit se jakékoli možné aktivity k ochraně ohrožených, k ulehčení bezpráví, k odpírání zlu. V bezmocném podrobení zůstávalo vždy volné pole pro aktivitu, která sice nebyla bez nebezpečí, ale při obezřelosti mohla být účinná. Jednotlivec bude muset uznat, že promeškal-li úzkostlivě tuto příležitost, je morálně vinen.
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Crucial for man is his attitude toward failure: whether it remains hidden from him and overwhelms him only objectively at the end or whether he perceives it unobscured as the constant limit of his existence; whether he snatches at fantastic solutions and consolations or faces it honestly, in silence before the unfathomable. The way in which man approaches his failure determines what he will become.