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I wish to begin and end with an irrelevancy. In the autobiographical statement that appears in the volume in the Library of Living Philosophers devoted to his thought, Karl Jaspers contrasts his experience living the life of a physician (he began as a psychiatrist) with that of his life as a philosopher. Regarding his colleagues in both professions, he writes:
The memory of the intellectual fellowship of our hospital in Heidelberg has accompanied me throughout my entire life. My later work was quite independent and was undertaken at my own risk... without contact with any professional group. The comparison enabled me to measure how diffused, artificial, and unreal is the professional association of teachers of philosophy, no matter how often its representatives may meet each other in congresses or express themselves in journals and books.1
“If I write of various doctrines belonging to the history of philosophy, it should be understood that this is in order to arrive at an analysis of certain experiences which in their essential content belong neither to a school nor to an epoch. The possibility of fundamental human experience underlies all authentic philosophy.”
Paul-Louis Landsberg
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