Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karl Theodor Jaspers (/ˈjæspərz/, German: [kaʁl ˈjaspɐs] ⓘ;[4][5] 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions.
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Born | Karl Theodor Jaspers (1883-02-23)23 February 1883 |
Died | 26 February 1969(1969-02-26) (aged 86) Basel, Switzerland |
Education | University of Heidelberg (MD, 1908) |
Spouse |
Gertrud Mayer (m. 1910) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Neo-Kantianism (early)[2] Existentialism (late) Existential phenomenology[3] (late) |
Main interests | Psychiatry, theology, philosophy of history |
Notable ideas | Axial Age; coining the term Existenzphilosophie; Dasein and Existenz as the two states of being, subject–object split (Subjekt-Objekt-Spaltung); theory of communicative transcendence, limit situation[2] |
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After being trained in and practising psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system. He was often viewed as a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, though he did not accept the label.