K.T.Jaspers/1883-1969/Psychiatrist and Philosopher

"The 'General Psychopathology',with which Jaspers graduated in psychology in 1913,points to the various routes to an understanding of certain aspects of the ultimately impenetrable reality of the mentally ill patient.The perception of individual circumstances,research into the relationships between them and understanding of the corresponding totality,are mutually conditioning and complementary factors.Explanation and understanding are essential methods that, in their manifold facets,reflect the multidimensionality of man.Only a multiplicity of theories can do justice to the totality of man.As concrete research and critical reflection progress,so the possibilitias and limits of science become apparent;the furtherance of such knowledge was experienced by Jaspers as an ongoing and vital task to which he remained dedicated throughout his life.However,it was only at the age of 40 that he took up philosophy as his life's work and as a means of approaching those questions to which science can provide no suitable answer." /Herman Horn/
"According to Jaspers,existential philosophy is neither new nor radically different from what usually goes by name of philosophy.Straight off in the introductory lecture he insists that it is an integral part of what he calls the "one,primordial philosophy.".The only thing new about it is that at present Existenz is the key term.One understands Jaspers,the,only by understanding his conception of philosophical thought and the role played by Existenz as the concept around which all others are clustered and organized.These two ideas are not separate.Philosophy derives its unique features from the fact that it is performed by man as Existenz."/Richard F.Grabau,"Preface"for "Philosophy of Existence",K.Jaspers
Is the existencialisme "autistic" and solipsistic as it has been often critisized and did Jaspers overcome this problem with his teaching on "total will for communication"/Reason&Existenz/?Can somebody explain /in few sentences/the relation between subject-object problem within "Encompassing"/das Umgreifende/and the vedanta's endeavour to overcome the absolute idealism/Adi Sancara/?
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