What is the part other people play in my work, as I search for the
truth and try to write?
Jaspers:
Truth is in communication
From:
Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existenz,
tr. W. Earle İNoonday Press
Page 3
Existenz, then, only becomes apparent and thereby real if it comes to itself
through, and at the same time with, another Existenz. What is
authentically human in the community of reason and Existenz is not, as
before in physical life, simply present in a plurality of naturally
generated examples, which then find one another and bind themselves
together. Rather communication seems to produce for the first time that
which is communicating: independent natures which come to consciousness of
themselves, however, as though they were not touched by the contingencies
of empirical existence, but had been bound together eternally. ...
Now, in existential communication, reason is what penetrates everything.
Existenz as the ground bears in its depths the organ which is present in
all modes of the Encompassing, which is the universal bond as well as the
unrest which disturbs every fixation. Reason, having its substance in
Existenz, arises from the authentic communication of one nature with
another, and it arises in such a fashion that empirical existence,
consciousness as such, and spirit are, so to speak, the body of its
appearance. ...
Communication remains original and unrestricted only where reason is
dependably present, a reason which as a source can not be objectified nor
directly perceived in any argumentation. It is truth itself, the total
will-to-communicate. ... In existential and rational communication, it is
the existing man who speaks decisively - the man who is not merely living
vitality, nor merely an abstract understanding, but who is himself in all
of these. ... Existenz finds itself in a realm of mind which can not be
closed, of Existenz open before Transcendence. ...
Cf. by Jaspers, The
Spirit of Europe | Pascal,
Method & purpose |
Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet |
Plato, Whom are we talking to?
| Kierkegaard, My work as an
author | Emerson,
Self-knowledge |
Gibson -
McRury, Discovering one's face |
Emerson, We differ
in art, not in wisdom
