L’inquietudine del pensiero come possibilità suprema e questione limite. Il Socrate esemplare di Karl Jaspers

Baptist, Gabriella

2019-01-01

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Abstract

The essay aims to highlight Jaspers’ interpretation of Socrates, with special attention to the first part of his book The Great Philosophers (1957). Socrates serves as his starting point in the presentation of paradigmatic individuals – simultaneously within and beyond history – whose role it is to give the measure of philosophical thinking. Jaspers’ intention is to offer a new confrontation with tradition, an intellectual form of resistance and a reconstruction of philosophy.