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Karl Jaspers Prize
The Karl Jaspers Prize or Karl-Jaspers-Preis is a German philosophy award named after Karl Jaspers and awarded by the city of Heidelberg and the University of Heidelberg. It was first awarded in 1983 "for a scientific work of international significance supported by philosophical spirit". The Karl Jaspers Prize was initially endowed with 5,000 euros, though since 2013 this has increased to €25,000. Next to the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize it is one of the highest awards in Germany awarded exclusively for philosophical achievements.
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Translation into English of Jaspers' 1958 peace prize acceptance speech "Truth, Freedom, and Peace".
- "The Philosophy Of Karl Jaspers" edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp 1957
- Karl Jaspers: Philosopher of Otherness at the New Acropolis Online Library