Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Are the German people guilty?These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity and morality in a disordered world. Jaspers, a life-long liberal, attempted in this book to discuss rationally a problem that had thus far evoked only heat and fury. Neither an evasive apology nor a wholesome condemnation, his book distinguished between types of guilt and degrees of responsibility. He listed four categories of guilt: criminal guilt (the commitment of overt acts), political guilt (the degree of political acquiescence in the Nazi regime), moral guilt (a matter of private judgment among one's friends), and metaphysical guilt (a universally shared responsibility of those who chose to remain alive rather than die in protest against Nazi atrocities). Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) took his degree in medicine but soon became interested in psychiatry. He is the author of a standard work of psychopathology, as well as special studies on Strindberg, Van Gogh and Nietsche. After World War I he became Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg, where he achieved fame as a brilliant teacher and an early exponent of existentialism. He was among the first to acquaint German readers with the works of Kierkegaard. Jaspers had to resign from his post in 1935. From the total isolation into which the Hitler regime forced him, Jaspers returned in 1945 to a position of central intellectual leadership of the younger liberal elements of Germany. In his first lecture in 1945, he forcefully reminded his audience of the fate of the German Jews. Jaspers's unblemished record as an anti-Nazi, as well as his sentient mind, have made him a rallying point center for those of his compatriots who wish to reconstruct a free and democratic Germany.
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初读之下,我原本以为会是一本比较沉闷的学术著作,毕竟主题本身就带着一种绕不开的沉重感。然而,作者的笔锋却展现出惊人的灵活性和多变性,使得整本书的节奏感把握得极为出色。那些理论性的探讨,总是巧妙地穿插在那些充满张力的对话和场景转换之间,使得晦涩的概念变得触手可及。我特别欣赏作者在处理历史细节时的那种近乎偏执的考据精神,但这种严谨绝没有成为阅读的障碍。相反,正是这些扎实的细节支撑起了整部作品的骨架,让读者能够清晰地“看见”那个时代的物质氛围和心理状态。我仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土和旧报纸的味道,感受到那种压抑而又暗流涌动的社会情绪。这种沉浸式的体验,让我不得不放慢速度,细细品味每一个措辞,因为稍不留神,可能就会错过作者精心埋藏的一个关于时代精神的注脚。
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评分读完此书,我产生了一种强烈的冲动,想要去重新审视那些我们习以为常的历史教科书叙述的表面之下隐藏的东西。作者在阐述复杂的哲学和社会学概念时,展现出一种罕见的清晰度和穿透力,但这种清晰并非来自于简化,而是来自于对本质的精准把握。书中对某些关键转折点的分析,尤其是在探讨个体良知与群体压力相互作用时,简直是大师级的剖析。我曾被书中描绘的一系列冲突场景所震撼,那些冲突并非是简单的黑白对立,而是充斥着灰色地带,充满了道德上的两难选择,每一个角色都在为自己的立场寻找支撑,哪怕这个支撑在后世看来是多么的脆弱或令人不适。这种对人性灰色地带的忠实记录,避免了将历史人物脸谱化的倾向,反而使得他们的困境更加真实、更具有普遍的警示意义。
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