Karl Jaspers

“the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence”. With that being said who can be a philosopher? Does it take extensive years of training? Maybe it’s simply the thoughts you have. Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger have two very contrasting views on the topic. Karl Jaspers was born in Germany in 1883. Originally he studied law at the University of Heidelberg then later switched to medicine. He received his doctorate in medicine and began working at a psychiatric hospital. He

knowledge by German existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers for characterizing the period of ancient history during about the 8th to the 3rd century BC. In this period of time we have developed a fundamentally new religious beliefs and doctrines that promoted human and cultural values of the era. Jaspers described the Axial Age as an interregnum between two ages of great empire, a pause for liberty, a deep breath bringing the most lucid consciousness. Jaspers argued that during the Axial Age, the spiritual

Philosophical Anthropology (Seminar) - Term Paper (Draft) Krishna S (0607197) In this paper, I am going to elucidate on the significance of the concepts of forgiveness and forgetfulness in Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Nietzsche’s conceptualization of human action and agency. Remedial Action: Forgiveness and Promise Hannah Arendt in her book, The Human Condition, delineates the three fundamental human activities that set up the Vita Activa: Labour, Work and Action. Arendt constitutes them to be fundamental

Here you will find a tantalizing array of modern day contemporary art that delivers a sensory overload wherever you turn. Nestled in between the copiousness of talent you will find three offerings from a prominent living contemporary artist called Jasper Johns titled Alphabet (1959), Figure 4 (1959), and Target (1961). Although at times his work faced rejection from the critics of individualism of abstract expressionists his life’s journey sculptured his path to who he is as a person and who he has

Pop Art c. 1952-1970 Pop art began to emerge in the early 1950s as a result of a booming, capitalist American economy that followed the Second World War. A sense of optimism arose nationwide with new job security, healthy incomes and an absence of military obligations. Post war marriage and baby booms yielded the ‘largest generation in the nations history’. The American dream was born and idealized in the media through advertising. Research undertaken by sociologists into consumer habits and behavior

Artist Introduction Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia on May 15, 1930. He is still alive today known for his paintings and printmaking. During his childhood, he lived with his father’s grandparents due to his parents’ marriage ending. His only introduction to art as a child was of paintings in his grandfather’s house of his grandmother who had died. He then moved around among with his aunt then his mother throughout his teenage years, and then finally graduated high school in Sumter South

humans. Through the discussion of Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) by Jackson Pollock, I will define Abstract Expression and why this work is part of this movement. Then, through the discussion of Canyon by Robert Rauschenberg, Target with Plaster Casts by Jasper Johns, and Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol, I will explain Assemblage and Pop Art and why each of these works belong to those movements. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is Jackson Pollock’s most famous piece that shows action painting, a defining technique

SYNOPSIS: At approximately 0752 hours on March 6, 2016, unknown subjects left trash at the Stokes Bluff Landing, in the Garnett area of Hampton County. John Cone Jr, a citizen of Jasper County, who keeps the landing clean reports a large crowd came to the landing on March 5, at approximately 2100 hours to camp out and have a barn fire. He further reports the subjects left the landing with beer bottles all over the ground along with beer cans and several other objects throw all over the ground. He

Biography Andy Warhol, U.S. painter, film- maker and figure in Pop Art movement (BBC, 2011). Studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology then moved to New York in 1949 (BBC, 2011). Andy in 1960’s experimented with reproductions on advertisements, newspapers headlines and other mass productions such as Coca Cola bottles and Campbell’s Soup tins (BBC, 2011). Andy started in 1962, portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol’s studio, also known as Factory, that

Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita By Diego Rivera Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His love of art showed early on as he began drawing as a child. Around the age of 10, Rivera was able to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. One of his early influences was artist José Posada who ran a print shop near Rivera's school. In 1907, Rivera traveled to Europe to further his art studies. There, he became friends with other leading artists