Ciphers and Existence. Karl Jaspers between West and East

Abstract

The paper tries to grasp and acquire Karl Jaspers s philosophical-mental horizons mainly with the terminological and methodological instruments of the musical primarily symphonic thematisation. Namely those typically jaspersian tensions and impulses, which in their connections to the Encompassing and to Existence are apparently far from them turning back (and forth) to the oriental and western metaphysics of Sound and Light. While the philosophical problems elevated into themes, now start to interweave into spectacle (spectaculum) and along this they open up as ciphers. Concomitantly they do not send us western thinkers beyond the World, but contrarily, they attach us to the communicative re- sponsibility towards the world, to ourselves respectively to others.