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At the time of his death, Karl Jaspers, a leading existentialism philosopher of modern times, was preparing a universal history of philosophy, of which this book is a part, organized around those philosophers whose thinking has influenced and shaped the history of mankind. Their personalities and ideas from the substance of his work. Hence, he was not writing a history of philosophy in the traditional sense but a presentation of great philosophical ideas that have helped from our concepts of truth and reason, freedom and justice, our beliefs about God and the universe, good and evil, and right from wrong. This approach necessarily includes and emphasizes the religious thinkers also. Professor Jaspers aimed to lead the reader into proximity with the truly great and seminal thinkers and to expose him to the particular truth for which one stands--from back cover.

First published in 1965, this collection of three essays by influential German philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the response of the philosophical mind to the world of reality, with the search for truth. In Leonardo, this search is shown in the thinking and the works of a supreme artist whose means of apperception are the senses. The essay on Max Weber commemorates a man Jaspers knew personally and ardently admired. The main essay in the collection is an exhaustive, three part study of Descartes: analysing Descartes’ new philosophical operation, Descartes’ Method, and the position of his philosophy within the wider historical context of philosophical thought.

First published in English in 1933, this detailed philosophical examination of the contemporary state and nature of mankind is a seminal work by influential German philosopher Karl Jaspers. Elucidating his theories on a variety of topics pertaining to contemporary and future human existence, Man in the Modern Age is an ambitious and wide-ranging work, which meditates upon such diverse subjects as the tension between mass-order and individual human life, our present conception of human life and the potential for mankind’s future existence. Written shortly before the accession to power of Hitler and National Socialism, this is not only an important philosophical work, but also an insightful and intriguing historical document.

First published in English in 1953, this important book from eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the philsophy of the history of mankind. More specifically, its avowed aim is to assist in heightening our awareness of the present by placing it within the framework of the long obscurity of prehistory and the boundless realm of possibilities which lie within the undecided future.This analysis is split into 3 parts: World history The present and the future The meaning of history