Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy

by KOTERSKI, JOSEPH W. SRLANGLEY, RAYMOND J.

• ISBN13: 9781591020028
• ISBN10: 1591020026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Humanity Books

Summary

This volume contains the first English translations of texts by Karl Jaspers on Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard. In addition, interpretative and critical essays by renowned scholars assess Jaspers' contributions to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history. This stimulating collection of new translations and in-depth essays by noted experts on one of the 20th century's great minds will complement college and university libraries and be of value to anyone interested in comparative Eastern and Western philosophy, the history of ideas, or the interrelations of biography and history.

Table of Contents

Legend of Abbreviations	7	(2)
Table 1: Jaspers's Project of a World History of Philosophy	9	(2)
Table 2: The Great Philosophers	11	(2)
Introduction. History as the Long Road Traveled by Thought and Thinker	13	(6)
Philosophy and Its History: The Double Helix of Jaspers's Thought	19	(12)
Leonard H. Ehrlich
The Image of Socrates in the Mirror of Jaspers	31	(12)
Stephen Erickson
Jaspers's Reading of Confucius: Understandable Misunderstandings	43	(8)
Graham Parkes
Jaspers and Lao Tzu	51	(5)
Paul C. L. Tang
Jaspers on Lao Tzu, Nagarjuna, and Dialectic	56	(8)
Richard N. Bosley
Jaspers and Nagarjuna	64	(5)
Malcolm David Eckel
Jaspers on Plato	69	(14)
Joanne Waugh
Jaspers's Interpretation of Aristotle	83	(16)
Klaus Brinkmann
Jaspers on Jesus of Nazareth	99	(13)
Harold H. Oliver
Jaspers on Augustine: The Will and Freedom	112	(18)
Judith Chelius Stark
Jaspers on Philosophy of Religion: His Treatment of Anselm and Cusa	130	(11)
Joseph W. Koterski
Thomas Aquinas	141	(14)
Karl Jaspers
Edith Ehrlich
Cusanus as Postmedievalist	155	(11)
Alan M. Olson
Construction and Being: Jaspers on Metaphysics and Science in Leibniz	166	(7)
Leonard H. Ehrlich
Reading Kant: Kant's Doctrine of Ideas	173	(20)
Karl Jaspers
Joseph W. Koterski
Kantian Continuations in Jaspers	193	(12)
Raymond Langley
Reading Hegel: Life between Chaos and Form	205	(18)
Karl Jaspers
Edith Ehrlich
Jaspers's Reception of Kierkegaard	223	(13)
Merold Westphal
Jaspers Reading Kierkegaard: An Instance of the Double Helix	236	(7)
Leonard H. Ehrlich
Reading Kierkegaard 1: Becoming Manifest	243	(9)
Karl Jaspers
Edith Ehrlich
Reading Kierkegaard 2: Guilt: The Fundamental Limit Situation	252	(6)
Karl Jaspers
Edith Ehrlich
The Relation of History of Philosophy to Philosophy of History in Karl Jaspers	258	(9)
Malek K. Khazaee
Jaspers and the Philosophy of History	267	(12)
Leonard H. Ehrlich
Jaspers, Weltanschauung, and the Idea of Philosophy	279	(16)
Tom Rockmore
Jaspers and the Axial Transfiguration of History	295	(8)
Robert S. Corrington
About the Contributors	303	(4)
Index of Proper Names and Titles	307	(6)
Index of Subjects	313