If philosophy is practice, ... by Karl Jaspers, a German Psychologist

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“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”

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Karl Jaspers

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Name: Karl Jaspers

Nationality: German

Date of Birth: Feb 23, 1883

Date of Death: Feb 26, 1969

Profession: Psychologist

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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

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