Karl Jaspers&#039; Theory of Irrationality: From Delusions to Worldviews

Daniel Adsett

doi:10.5771/9781666934298

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3428-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3429-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Karl Jaspers Bibliography and Abbreviations No access
4. A Note on Translations No access
1. The Meaning of Irrationality No access
2. Overview and Aims No access
3. A Note on Terminology No access
4. Chapter Overviews No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Foundationalism No access
  2. Coherentism No access
2. 1. Against the Normativity of Rationality No access
  2. In Defense of the Normativity of Rationality No access
3. 1. Rationality as an Achievement No access
  2. Criticism of Rationality as an Achievement No access
  3. Rationality, a Kantian View No access
  4. The Anti-Normativity of Irrationality No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. The Idea of a Periechontology in General No access
  2. 1. Dasein No access
    2. Consciousness-as-Such No access
    3. Spirit No access
    4. Existenz No access
  3. 1. The World No access
    2. Transcendence No access
  4. 1. The Unifying Function of Reason No access
    2. Historical Efforts to Achieve Unity No access
    3. Irrationality No access
    4. Reason and Normativity No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Delusions and Delusion-Like Ideas No access
  2. Shane—A Targeted Individual—Delusion-Like Ideas No access
  3. FE—“Mirrored-Self Misidentification”—Delusions Proper No access
2. 1. Jaspers on Delusions No access
  2. Delusions and Experience No access
  3. Delusional Reasoning No access
  4. Irrationality as Inaccuracy No access
  5. 1. Ununderstandability No access
    2. Ununderstandability and Delusions No access
    3. Healthy and Pathological Ununderstandability No access
  6. Irrationality as Incorrigibility No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. What Makes Delusions Irrational?—Foundationalism No access
  2. What Makes Delusions Irrational?—Coherentism No access
  3. Delusions and Responding to Evidence No access
  4. The Character of Evidence No access
  5. Framework Beliefs No access
  6. Responding to Evidence by Modifying Background Assumptions No access
  7. Responding to Evidence through Clarification and Elaboration No access
  8. The Demands of Rationality No access
2. 1. Irrationality as the Failure of the Will to Communication No access
  2. The Problem with Identifying Irrationality No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Jaspers’ Early Critique of Psychoanalysis No access
  2. Jaspers’ Mature Critique of Psychoanalysis and the Heidelberg Psychosomatic Clinic No access
2. 1. From Man in the Modern Age to The Future of Mankind No access
  2. Georg Lukács’ Critique of Jaspers’ Position No access
3. 1. 1. Philosophical Faith and Faith in Revelation No access
    2. Cipher-Reading No access
  2. Jaspers and Bultmann: On the Use of Myth No access
  3. Jaspers and Barth: The Content of Transcendence No access
  4. Jaspers on the Distinction between Catholicity and Reason No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Irrationality and the Jaspersian Worldview No access
2. The Foundering of Jaspers’ Periechontology No access
3. The Prospects of Reason No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 193 - 204
Index No access Pages 205 - 212
About the Author No access Pages 213 - 214