We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitati… - Karl Jaspers

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We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

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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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But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands a spectacular death. Plato already deemed it a matter of course to go into hiding in desperate times of calamity, and to survive. But passivity knows itself morally guilty of every failure, every neglect to act whenever possible, to shield the imperiled, to relieve wrong, to countervail. Impotent submission always left a margin of activity which, though not without risk, could still be cautiously effective. Its anxious omission weighs upon the individual as moral guilt. Blindness for the misfortune of others, lack of imagination of the heart, inner differences toward the witnessed evil — that is moral guilt.

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Je to rozdíl mezi politickou svobodou a politickou diktaturou, chápaný od doby Herodotovy jako rozdíl mezi Západem a Orientem (mezi řeckou svobodou a perskou despocií). Ale není už zpravidla na jednotlivcích, aby rozhodovali, jaké poměry mají vládnout. Jednotlivec se do nich rodí, štastně nebo neštastně; musí přejímat, co je zde a co je skutečné. Žádný jednotlivec a žádná skupina nemohou rázem - a také ne jen v jediné generaci – změnit tento předpoklad, bez něhož není život nás všech myslitelný.

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