Karl Jaspers (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Born and reared near the North Sea in Oldenburg, Germany, Karl Theodor Jaspers was the eldest of three children in an upper-middle-class family whose ancestors had lived in northern Germany for generations. His father was a successful lawyer who served as president of the city council as well as a bank director. Never in good health, during childhood Jaspers suffered from serious diseases that developed into a chronic dilation of the bronchial tubes, which led to cardiac decompensation (the heart’s inability to maintain normal circulation). These severe health...
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