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Professor Wisser’s address to students during the Summer Semester of 1995 at the University of Mainz (Germany) regarding the contributions of Karl Jaspers on world philosophy, a history of world philosophy, and the value of his thought for philosophizing in general. Discussion of the semantics of seeing, hearing, and learning and what Jaspers has to offer as regards the continuous project of Bildung as contrast to other major figures in the history of Western philosophy and theology.
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This text contains the first two meetings of my Summer 1995 lecture. Translated from German by Helmut Wautischer.
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The German expression is, mit Brettern vernagelt. See Gunther Haupt and Winfried Hofmann, Geflügelte Worte. Der Zitateschatz des deutschen Volkes, gesammelt und erläutert von Georg Büchmann (Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1972), p. 147. [Henceforth cited as GF]
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See for example Richard Wisser, Kein Mensch ist einerlei. Spektrum und Aspekte “kritisch-krisischer Anthropologie” (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 1997).
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See Richard Wisser, “Von der Entdeckung des ‘wahren’ Vico: Geschichtsmächtigkeit des Menschen und Verstehbarkeit von Geschichte,” in Philosophische Wegweisung. Versionen und Perspektiven, ed. Richard Wisser (Würzburg: Verlag Könighausen & Neumann, 1998), pp. 63–92.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, eds. Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman, trans. Judith Norman (Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 4. [Henceforth cited as BGE]
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Wisser, R. (2012). Towards World Philosophy and a World History of Philosophy—Karl Jaspers: His Work, Calling, and Legacy. In: Wautischer, H., Olson, A., Walters, G. (eds) Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2223-1_24
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