Way to Wisdom – An Introduction to Philosophy - Softcover

Jaspers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300001347 ISBN 13: 9780300001341

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1977

Synopsis

One of the founders of existentialism, Karl Jaspers presents for the general reader a lucid summary of his great philosophical works. He believes that the heart of all philosophical thinking is the quest for "true Being" and that "the man who attains true awareness of his freedom gains certainty of God." In Jasper's view a man's philosophy, like the life process itself, must undergo a continuous change as a result of the development and needs of the individual and the crises he must experience. In "Way to Wisdom" he gives a brilliant and exciting introduction to an understanding of philosophy and offers the serious reader an approach to a deeper understanding.

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Review

"An eloquent expression of a great hope that philosophy may again become an activity really relevant not only to the perennial problems of life and death but to the unusual configurations of such problems in our time."

About the Author

German philosopher, physician, and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers was born in 1883 and died in 1969. The great translator Ralph Manheim rendered in English such twentieth-century classics as Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. Richard M. Owsley, professor of philosophy at North Texas University, is president of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300001347
• ISBN 13: 9780300001341
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208