Abstract
Jaspers’ description of the nature and meaning of Weltorientierung occupies the entire first volume of Philosophie. In this chapter we will focus on three formal aspects of this analysis that are essential to obtaining an understanding of his overall method of “transcending-thinking.” The first has to do with the phenomenon of “disjunction” (die Trennung) or being-in-the-world as an “indeterminate totality;” the second concerns the possibility of a “scientific world-view” in the light of this experience; and the third is a consideration of the “reversal” (die Umkehrung) in consciousness caused by a recognition of the limits of scientific inquiry and the conversion it can effect in the subject as the occasion for a movement into the language of interiority.
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Philosophy of Existence, trans. Richard Grabau (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), p. 20ff.
Phil., I, p. 99.
Ibid., p. 129.
Ibid., p. 116.
Primary among these difficulties, it seems to us, is Jaspers’ understanding of “objectivity” about which we will say more in Part III.
Cf., Jean Piaget, Insights and Illusions of Philosophy (New York: World Publishing Co., 1971), pp. 209–213, for a misreading of this demarcation as simply a device whereby “wisdom” philosophy is “removed” from the province of what Piaget considers to be scientific “genetic” epistemology.
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Cf., Chiffren der Transzendenz (München: R. Piper, 1970), 7–11.
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Ibid., p. 134. Cf. also Reason and Existenz, trans. William Earle (New York: Noonday Press, 1955), pp. 51–76.
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Ibid., p. 206.
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Phil., I, p. 166. This attitude, of course, is most definitively shared and developed by Edmund Husserl. Cf., Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), esp. pp. 149–192, and The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, trans. David Carr (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
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Olson, A.M. (1979). Transcending in World-Orientation. In: Transcendence and Hermeneutics. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9270-2_1
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