A Central Problem With Western Philosophy

“The passionate revivification of these words and doctrines…is an impotent call to hold fast.” — Jaspers

By Rembrandt — internet, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6375105

The other day I was reading an excerpt of Karl Jaspers book, Existenzphilosophie, translated by Felix Kaufmann from 1941.