Man in the Modern Age
8 hrs. 8 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Karl Jaspers
Author
Karl Jaspers
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
"The Meaning and Purpose of History" ("Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte", 1949) is Jaspers’ work. Jaspers puts forward a concept of a world-historical process oriented toward discovering its unity. This unity is not understood as the result of some totality unfolding itself according to a rigid scheme, but as the common outcome of the meaning-driven problems of human life. Jaspers structures history into four periods: prehistory, the era of the great cultures of antiquity, the “axial time,” and the scientific-technological era.
In the book “The Spiritual Situation of the Age,” the concept of “situation” is considered as one of the key terms for analyzing human existence. A situation is meaningful, concrete reality—an unrepeatable combination of events that gives historical uniqueness to a person’s fate. Time, an era, a world—these are “factual reality in time.” Only philosophy, which Jaspers understands as a “spiritual process,” can change the spiritual situation of an age, solve problems of universally human values, and find ways to reach mutual understanding among different types of societies, peoples, and religions.
In the book “The Spiritual Situation of the Age,” the concept of “situation” is considered as one of the key terms for analyzing human existence. A situation is meaningful, concrete reality—an unrepeatable combination of events that gives historical uniqueness to a person’s fate. Time, an era, a world—these are “factual reality in time.” Only philosophy, which Jaspers understands as a “spiritual process,” can change the spiritual situation of an age, solve problems of universally human values, and find ways to reach mutual understanding among different types of societies, peoples, and religions.
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