Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2024.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi44110
Jaspers’ Philosophical Thanatology
Mark Losoncz
orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-1122
; Univerzitet u Beogradu, Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Kraljice Natalije 45, RS–11000 Beograd
Abstract
The article starts from the analysis of Jaspers’ concept of death as a limit situation, with special reference to the difference between Dasein and existence. Particular attention is paid to the way in which Jaspers determines the relationship between death and transcendence. Jaspersian death is also interpreted as “atemporalizing” eternity. It is emphasized that his philosophical thanatology is fundamentally different from the Stoic and Epicurean view of death. In contrast to Peach’s interpretation, it is suggested that an adequate reading of Jaspers’s philosophy of death combines mystical and existential aspects. On the other hand, contrary to Csejtei’s claim, the article shows that death in Jaspers is not solipsistic but has a very strong intersubjective dimension. Accordingly, the death of the Other is interpreted in the context of love.
Keywords
death; thanatology; Karl Jaspers; Martin Heidegger; eternity; transcendence; immortality; mysticism; love; intersubjectivity
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Publication date:
11.10.2024.
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