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Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy (Yale Nota Bene S)

By Karl Jaspers

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0300097352, 9780300097351
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3032543 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
224\218
Time added
2024-05-16 07:18:31

Description

One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers’ view, the source of philosophy is to be found “in wonder, in doubt, in a sense of forsakenness,” and the philosophical quest is a process of continual change and self-discovery. In a new foreword to this edition, Richard M. Owsley provides a brief overview of Jaspers’ life and achievement. “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.”―Julian N. Hartt, Yale Review “Original, sincere, cultivated, and stimulating.”―Philosophy

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