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 4
The dissatisfaction with every particular mode of communication leads to a
will to total communication, a will which can only be one and which is the
authentically driving and binding force in all the modes of communication.
...
From this situation of Existenz in time, it follows first that, if truth is
bound up with communication, truth itself can only become - that
in its depths, it is not dogmatic but communicative. Out of the
consciousness of a becoming truth, first springs the possibility of a
radical openness of the will to communicate in actuality - a will,
however, that can never fulfill itself except in an historical moment
which, precisely as such, becomes incommunicable.
There follows secondly, in being wrecked by the multiplicity of truth, a
self-recovery of the unlimited will to communicate in an attitude which
just as resolutely envisages failure in the whole while it nevertheless
holds to its path, not knowing where it leads.
It follows thirdly that, if truth in communication can never be definitively
won and established -truth like communication seeing itself, so to speak,
disappear before Transcendence, change before Being - nevertheless, its
resolute actualization brings forth also the deepest openness for
Transcendence. ...
It would be a truth which would arise for the first time in communication,
which would become actual only in and through it; it would be a truth
which is neither already here to be transmitted to another, nor which
presents us with a methodically attainable end in which it could be valid
without communication. ...
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
