As cifras da transcendência na filosofia de Karl Jaspers

Abstract

This thesis aims at understanding the “ciphers of transcendence” in Karl Jasper’s thought. We believe, however, that this investigation can be decisive to think how his philosophy of existence could also be called a philosophy of transcendence. We could say that the reflection that our author establishes around human existence makes possible an opening for transcendence when he connects existence to the horizon at failure and its consequent overcoming. One can observe it is in the confrontation with these extreme moments that transcendence occurs through “ciphered signs”. Therefore, that the way established by Jaspers in his grounding of the specific human condition ends up, in a decisive manner, in a sphere of transcendence. Under this aspect, we think this research contributes to understand how Jaspers establishes the connection between existence and transcendence and, furthermore, how he construes thes statute of his philosophy of transcendence.