Ran Lahav interviews Agatha Liu, a member of the Deep Philosophy Group from Taiwan and England, who describes what inspired her in the German philosopher Karl Jaspers.
Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) was a philosopher and psychiatrist, and one of the founders of existentialist philosophy and psychology. He received his medical degree from the University of Berlin, worked for a while at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg, and then turned to philosophy. Because of his Jewish wife he was forced by the Nazis to retire and was also banned from publication. Fortunately, they both survived. After the war he moved with his wife to Switzerland, and started working at the University of Basel. He dedicated much energy to the moral and democratic rebirth of the German nation.
The interview with Agatha is based on Jaspers' book WAY TO WISDOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY (1950), which is a kind of summary of his main philosophical ideas. In the chapter "The philosophical life" he explains his vision of what it means to live philosophically.
