The Germans: Karl Jaspers

A lecture exploring the life and work of the under-appreciated German thinker Karl Jaspers. Delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College.
www.wescecil.com for more information and a copy of the handout with the quotes.

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  • @samclemans69
    @samclemans693 жыл бұрын

    What a joy to stumble upon this. Loved listening to your lecture. Thanks. Jespers feels so relevant to the state of the world at the moment.

  • @asdkfjasdl_kfjas
    @asdkfjasdl_kfjas4 жыл бұрын

    Ah very much looking forward to the hannah arendt lecture!

  • @Great_Olaf5
    @Great_Olaf52 жыл бұрын

    Karl Jaspers sounds like exactly my kind of philosopher. And he takes inspiration from two of the ones who were already my favorites, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Gonna have to look into him some more, add to the list...

  • @pakabe8774
    @pakabe87742 жыл бұрын

    As a German and a philosopher I would say that Karl Jaspers is a Giant of philosophy and one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century on this planet. Sadly Germans never liked Jaspers much, so he is more like an unloved step child for German community of so called philosophers. It was for a reason, that he left Germany in 1948, after he and his wife survived Nazi Germany.

  • @lauralaladarling3775
    @lauralaladarling37752 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Wes for a very insightful and inspiring and witty lecture on Jasper. I thought it was fabulous. Xx

  • @xstephanx94
    @xstephanx944 жыл бұрын

    TURN UP FOR THE VOID !

  • @kalyanamitra2048
    @kalyanamitra20482 жыл бұрын

    I know Jaspers - we even share a birthday! Wonderful, lively lecture.

  • @vahidaghaei6784
    @vahidaghaei67843 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture!

  • @madramalou2706
    @madramalou27062 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this useful talk. I do have one remark regarding your comments on Arendt's love affair with Heidegger, and her reasons for ending it. Their affair began in early 1925 and lasted about one year. Arendt ended it not because of Heidegger's politics, but because she wanted to devote herself fully to her philosophical studies. She left Marburg University, where Heidegger taught, and went to Heidelberg, where she completed her dissertation under Jaspers. She and Heidegger continued to exchange affectionate letters in the following few years. Heidegger's conservative nationalism took a turn towards support for the Nazis in 1933, after Hitler came to power.

  • @lauralaladarling3775

    @lauralaladarling3775

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hello, Thank you very much for this important clarification on Heidegger and Ardent's short affair and her completing her dissertation under Jasper's.

  • @emrahkorkmaz87
    @emrahkorkmaz872 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @axiomtv5481
    @axiomtv54814 жыл бұрын

    Hi Wes, can you please do a review of the book W.I.L.D., What Is Life Definitively by A. Radical? I'd be very interested in your thoughts. Thanks.

  • @juanf.crespo2639
    @juanf.crespo26395 ай бұрын

    You forgot to remember Max Weber in the middle.

  • @a.n.c.australia
    @a.n.c.australia2 жыл бұрын

    Is it the fact that I have too much energy, or could it be the pork that I had for lunch??

  • @michaelgregoryaustin
    @michaelgregoryaustin4 жыл бұрын

    Was hoping for stuff about Axial Age.

  • @charlesbeaudelair8331

    @charlesbeaudelair8331

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4WD3KSYps_Rips.html

  • @samclemans69

    @samclemans69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Charles Beau de l'Air Thanks for the link

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams3 жыл бұрын

    Ravi?!

  • @seanburke6282
    @seanburke62824 жыл бұрын

    Any chance you'll do a lecture on Ayn Rand???

  • @asdkfjasdl_kfjas

    @asdkfjasdl_kfjas

    4 жыл бұрын

    Count me in, I would definitely also be interested in Wes's take on Ayn Rand!

  • @ItsCronk

    @ItsCronk

    4 жыл бұрын

    No serious human will dedicate any meaningful work towards spreading Rand's coce-filled nonsense.

  • @End-Result

    @End-Result

    4 жыл бұрын

    ㅤItsCronk hear, hear!

  • @ALOKKUMAR-mq3fz
    @ALOKKUMAR-mq3fz3 жыл бұрын

    the speaker keeps saying that jaspers was very clear. false. jaspers too was very vague and unclear. even his reason and existenz which are lectures are very tough to grasp.

  • @franzwonka2580

    @franzwonka2580

    2 ай бұрын

    I listened to some of his lectures and they were quite easy to grasp at least on the surface

  • @ahmadvahab968
    @ahmadvahab9684 жыл бұрын

    What a poor description of Heidegger!

  • @Great_Olaf5

    @Great_Olaf5

    2 жыл бұрын

    He does have a whole lecture recording on Heidegger, that one might be a bit fairer to him. Not sure myself, haven't listened to it, and don't know much about Heidegger but his name anyway to be able to tell. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3psyJWSYq64lsY.html