Karl Jaspers: Suç
FELSEFE ARKIVI = ARCHIVES OF PHILOSOPHY, cilt.64, sa.1, ss.430-436, 2026 (Hakemli Dergi)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 64 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.26650/arcp.1762339
- Dergi Adı: FELSEFE ARKIVI = ARCHIVES OF PHILOSOPHY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.430-436
- Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This passage is a translation of the “Schuld” section from Karl Jaspers’ Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (1919 - Psychology of Worldviews). Here, Jaspers positions guilt as one of the four limit situations humans inevitably encounter and discusses the concept within Søren Kierkegaard’s understanding of “the absolute relationship with the absolute.”
Kierkegaard interprets guilt not only in terms of legal or social criteria but also in the context of the direct, unmediated relationship between God and the individual. According to him, external mediations, measurable legal penalties, or redemption based on individual criteria do not eliminate the existential dimension of guilt. Therefore, Kierkegaard identifies three “finite” concepts of guilt: mediation, temporary and self-imposed redemptions.
As Jaspers puts it, these concepts make guilt measurable and finite; yet guilt in the “absolute relationship with the Absolute” expresses the individual’s unlimited responsibility before God. This perspective opens the door to an existential understanding of responsibility that transcends legal, ethical, and political debates in the modern world.