I can only recommend this book. It is constantly reprinted and sold out. J.Š.
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In Jaspers' conception, man is only a possible existence; not every man actually becomes an existence: becoming an existence is man's task, his mission, it is not part of his givenness, his nature. Against this mission every man can be guilty, can fail, and in various ways. This is the novelty: the subject is no longer what "is", what endures in the midst of the mutability of life, but someone who happens, who "becomes", who can fail in this, who can be guilty not only towards others but also towards himself, towards his vocation to existence, who blocks his own future and loses himself. Jaspers goes even further and argues: one becomes existent in liminal situations and it is in these that one also fails. This shipwreck, however, is already prepared in everyday life as a transgression.
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