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Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions.
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Born 23 February 1883 · Died 26 February 1969 · Q76509
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I approach the presentation of Kierkegaard with some trepidation. Next to Nietzsche, or rather, prior to Nietzsche, I consider him to be the most important thinker of our post-Kantian age. With Goethe and Hegel, an epoch had reached its conclusion, and our prevalent way of thinking – that is, the positivistic, natural-scientific one – cannot really be considered as philosophy.
Awarded honorary citizen of Oldenburg (Oldb) (1963).
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“I approach the presentation of Kierkegaard with some trepidation. Next to Nietzsche, or rather, prior to Nietzsche, I consider him to be the most important thinker of our post-Kantian age. With Goethe and Hegel, an epoch had reached its conclusion, and our prevalent way of thinking – that is, the positivistic, natural-scientific one – cannot really be considered as philosophy.”
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JSTOR Daily: The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers
The New England Journal of Medicine: Karl Jaspers — Modern Existentialist
Died 1969-02-26.
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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.”
“Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.”
Awarded honorary citizen of Oldenburg (Oldb) (1963).
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Was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Oldenburg in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements and services to occidental culture
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Awarded Erasmus Prize (1959).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1959).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1958).
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Jaspers moved to the University of Basel in Switzerland
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Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1947).
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Jaspers was considered to have a "Jewish taint" (jüdische Versippung, in the jargon of the time) due to his Jewish wife, Gertrude Mayer, and was forced to retire from teaching in 1937
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At the age of 38, Jaspers turned from psychology to philosophy, expanding on themes he had developed in his psychiatric works
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Jaspers habilitated at the philosophical faculty of Heidelberg University and gained a post there in 1914 as a psychology teacher
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In which he addressed the problem of whether paranoia was an aspect of personality or the result of biological changes
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Married Gertrud Mayer (1879–1974), the sister of his close friends Gustav Mayer and Ernst Mayer
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And began work at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg under Franz Nissl, the successor of Emil Kraepelin and Karl Bonhoeffer, and Karl Wilmans
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Born 1883-02-23.
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To a mother from a local farming community and a jurist father
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