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 5
The openness in the will-to-communicate is a double one: first, openness to
the knowability of what is not yet known. Since that which is not
communicable is as though it were not at all, openness strives to bring
every possibility into the medium of communication so that it might attain
being for us. Secondly, this openness must be ready to encounter the
substance of every being that really communicates with me as another who I
am not, but in solidarity with whom I can without limit will to become
myself. This loving search of men reaches no termination. ... The
unlimited will-to-communicate, then, never means simply to submit oneself
to the other as such, but rather to know that other, to hear him, to will
to reckon with him even unto the necessity of a transformation of oneself.
Since it is impossible for man to have Transcendence in time as a knowable
object, identical for everybody like something in the world, every mode of
the One Truth as absolute in the world can in fact only be historical:
unconditional for this Existenz but, precisely for this reason, not
universally valid. ... The total will-to-communicate trusts the truth of
others which is not its own, but which, as truth, must contain a
possibility of 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
