Anselm and Nicholas of Cusa: From the Great Philosophers : The Original Thinkers (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Karl Jaspers; Ralph Jaspers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156076004 ISBN 13: 9780156076005

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

Synopsis

Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.

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About the Author

Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy.

Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community, and a jurist father. He showed an early interest in philosophy, but his father's experience with the legal system undoubtedly influenced his decision to study law at university. It soon became clear that Jaspers did not particularly enjoy law, and he switched to studying medicine in 1902.

Jaspers graduated from medical school in 1909 and began work at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg where Emil Kraepelin had worked some years earlier. Jaspers became dissatisfied with the way the medical community of the time approached the study of mental illness and set himself the task of improving the psychiatric approach. In 1913 Jaspers gained a temporary post as a psychology teacher at Heidelberg University. The post later became permanent, and Jaspers never returned to clinical practice.

At the age of 40 Jaspers turned from psychology to philosophy, expanding on themes he had developed in his psychiatric works. He became a renowned philosopher, well respected in Germany and Europe. In 1948 Jaspers moved to the University of Basel in Switzerland. He remained prominent in the philosophical community until his death in Basel in 1969.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156076004
• ISBN 13: 9780156076005
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188