Heidegger Betrayed Him. Arendt Never Left. | Karl Jaspers Complete Philosophy for Sleep

A boy told he would die by thirty built a philosophy of openness that outlived two death sentences.

Karl Jaspers trained as a doctor under the shadow of an early death, reinvented the study of the troubled mind, and then crossed quietly into philosophy to ask the largest questions a person can face. This episode follows his whole arc, from the cold northern coast where he was born, through the Heidelberg years and the marriage that shaped everything, to the ideas that made him one of the deepest thinkers of his century.

We trace the situations no one escapes, the self that is never finished, the truth that lives only between two people, and the signs of something beyond all knowing. We walk through his shattered friendship with another great philosopher, the years he and his wife lived under threat, and his emergence after the war as a moral conscience who asked a ruined nation to think clearly about its guilt. It is the story of a mind that refused, against everything, to close.

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(0:00:00) The Boy Given Thirty Years (0:12:03) The Doctor Who Listened (0:20:41) The Man at Full Stretch (0:26:21) The Situations We Cannot Escape (0:36:18) The Two Who Woke Him (0:44:07) The Book Built to Stay Open (0:49:59) The Self That Is Never Finished (0:58:10) The Loving Struggle (1:04:11) The Horizon Behind Every Horizon (1:12:25) The Cipher and the Shipwreck (1:23:07) Reason Against the Fever (1:29:27) The Friend Who Crossed Over (1:36:17) The Poison and the Liberation (1:45:49) Four Kinds of Guilt (1:53:28) The Friendship That Held (1:59:42) A Faith Without Dogma (2:06:46) The Axis of History (2:16:42) The Long Conversation (2:22:56) The Bomb and the Conscience (2:30:40) The Philosopher of the Open

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