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The Perennial Scope of Philosophy

work by Jaspers

Also known as: “Der philosophische Glaube”

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In Karl Jaspers: Postwar development of thought
…Der philosophische Glaube (1948; The Perennial Scope of Philosophy, 1949) and Der philosophische Glaube angesichts der Offenbarung (1962; Philosophical Faith and Revelation, 1967). Since all thought in its essence rests on beliefs, he reasoned, the task confronting man is to free philosophical thinking from all attachments to the transient objects…
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