The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski

The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski ebook
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Page: 142
ISBN: 0823220680, 9780823220687
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In pondering these questions, I am reminded of Karl Jaspers and his work, The Question of German Guilt, written after the Holocaust, in which he argues that there are 4 layers of guilt. THE QUESTION OF GERMAN GUILT A brief view by *Anton Legerer German Law Journal No. Jaspers, Karl "The Question of German Guilt"; Jay, Martin "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950"; Jung, C.G. Over the last two days I've spent some time reading The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers (E.B. Argument is the question of German 'war guilt', with the Schlieffen plan produced as evidence of German aggression. After the war he resumed his teaching position, and in his work The Question of German Guilt he unabashedly examined the culpability of Germany as a whole in the atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. In the years after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Hindenberg University lectured on a subject which burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. 259-60: Karl Jaspers, in The Question of German Guilt, argued that people should be collectively held responsible for the way they are governed. The question that is seriously being asked here is: Should I feel guilty about what was done by Germans under nazi rule? In this poll, 1000 representatively chosen Germans should answer the question, who was guilty for the German-Hungarian war of 1880. Germany Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest in the question how Germans have remembered their experiences as victims of the Second World War. From Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt, pp. The results of this poll are as follows:”. "[H]ow can relatives think clearly and logically about the moral culpability of someone they love, without interrogating that love itself?" asks Karina Longworth in the Voice. Joshua and I have been discussing, in gruesome detail, the question of German collective guilt for the crimes and horrors of World War II. Margalit, Gilad: Guilt, Suffering, and Memory. 2 In 1946, at the time of the trials of the Nazi élite, the philosopher Karl Jaspers published his booklet Die.