Abstract
ABSTRACT The article is written to bring forward for discussion Karl Jaspers' The Idea of the University, published in 1923 and extensively revised in 1946. The origins of the work, with its close relationship to Jaspers' own intellectual progress and his contribution to the rebuilding of the post-war German university systems, is described. The main themes of the book (wholeness, tension and boundary situations, communication, and the freedom of the intellectual) are considered in detail with the intention of demonstrating his uniqueness as an existentialist in justifying a specific social institution. The author's view of the relationship of state and university leads to an analysis of Jaspers' opinions on the goals and processes of education and to a consideration of the membership of the university and the environment for an intellectual elite. The two interdependent tools of the university are said to be the scientific spirit and philosophy. Each is examined and the quality of ‘responsive reasoning˚s...
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