Karl Jaspers on Truth and Dialogue

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Anton Hügli is professor emeritus of philosophy and education at the University of Basel.

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At the heart of Karl Jaspers on Truth and Dialogue is the question of the possibilities and limits of global communication. Anton Hügli shows how disastrous it is for the individual, for society, and for the destiny of humanity when the will to communicate is lacking.

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Preface

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Introduction

1. A First Approach to Karl Jaspers

2. The Modes of Encompassing and Their Different Sense of Truth

3. Choosing One's Self - An Approach to the Concept of Existence

4. Loneliness (Einsamkeit) and Communication

5. Encounters with Transcendence

6. Jaspers' Notion of Illumination of Reason

7. The Decision Between Direct and Indirect Communication

8. Jasper's Philosophy as an Expression of His Unconditional Will to Communicate

9. The Idea of the One and Negative Theology

10. Philosophical Faith

11. Democracy as Self-Education. The Will to Unconditional Communication in Politics

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