Karl Jaspers

About Karl Jaspers

Coined the term Axial Age for the great awakening of thought from 800 to 200 BC. Limit situations like death, guilt, and suffering awaken authentic existence. The Encompassing names the ultimate horizon beyond every object. Trained first as a psychiatrist and wrote a classic of clinical method. Barred from teaching under the Nazis and nearly deported. Later became a major voice against nuclear weapons.