The author did lay out key ideas of eminent Existentialist thinker’s philosophy, of his “philosophizing” — an open intellectual process oriented towards subject’s personal choice, accession to obligation, where own authenticity attainment means freedom and transcendence of available existence. The author has emphasized that “existence” according to Jaspers uncovers itself in “borderline situations” offering an opportunity to touch the transcendence — higher being equivalent to God. The author did consider prime category of Jaspers’ conception, a “communication” as deep existential “interaction in truth”, and did formulate the purpose of philosophy according to German thinker: to help modern culture to get out of crisis, to acquire genuine human communication the foundations for which were laid by Axial Age.
Keywords: existence; borderline situations; communication; Axial Age; philosophy of technology.
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