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The Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition.
The Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition.
A Drop of Ink. From his rigorous criticism of such peace mechanisms as exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty...
However, Jaspers' essential confidence does not stem from such cold comforts. He insists that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that make history, he is a factor." Just as a drop of ink stains a glass of water, so the humblest of men, in...
Nothing is more foolish, Jaspers feels, than to listen to scientists on these ultimate questions. That is to confuse technical means with moral ends. To know the limits of know-how is the beginning of know-why. Philosophy, the kind that every man consciously or unconsciously possesses, "enables man to...