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Interpreting Karl Jaspers\u27 Phenomenological Plato Transcending the Bounds of the Doctrinal Scholarly Tradition
Get PDFFocusing on Karl Jaspers\u27 important reading of Plato, I make the case for the re-conceptualization of Plato as a non-doctrinal philosopher, by means of phenomenological-existential readings of his dialogues related to contemporary Continental thought. The essay builds upon Jaspers\u27 largely overlooked phenomenological-existential readings of both Plato and Socrates in relation to Platonic scholarship emerging from the contemporary phenomenological tradition. I focus on a speculative interpretation of Jaspers\u27 non-doctrinal Plato by analyzing four components of his prescient reading, which is an invaluable historical and philosophical document of Platonic scholarship that precedes contemporary Continental phenomenological approaches to Platonic interpretation by a span of more than three decades. The unacknowledged presence of Jaspers\u27 phenomenological understanding of Plato reverberates in the contemporary phenomenological and hermeneutic scholarship focused on understanding Plato\u27s non-doctrinal philosophical project. Ultimately, I read Jaspers\u27 unique analysis of Plato in its relation to the contemporary non-doctrinal Platonic scholarship that is focused on questioning traditional analytic and doctrinal readings of Plato in order to learn how Jaspers\u27 work might contribute to future phenomenological analyses of Plato while upholding Jaspers\u27 deserved recognition as a philosophical pioneer in the field of phenomenological Plato scholarship
