Durchbruch del limite. Dal naufragio al confine della verità con Karl Jaspers

The present research shows that Jaspers' philosophy is constantly engaged, both on the metaphysical and the historical side, to recall the responsibility to read the common life of human beings and to act in order to transform world society into a authentic community. This opening, more urgent today than ever, is realized if the person has the courage to face first of all the negative, the finitude, the limit. It is the existence as such that carries within itself the Grenzsituationen. In this perspective, it emerges that the shipwreck, which is the preferred metaphor by Jaspers to mean the failure of every navigation project in life, can turn from a limit into the decisive threshold for the whole sense of existence, carrying within itself a kind of mysterious but liberating gift. The turning point is that the shipwrecked man is now available to the truth of transcendence. In metaphysical knowledge we experience a limitation that is also structural for our journey of knowledge of the truth: it is a matter of facing the scandal of nothingness. It is right before him that the recognition of an essential truth can be opened: being already understood in the relationship with the original being and with the eternal. Through the Durchbruch of the limit intended as a boundary, we reach the Umgreifende, the transcendence that, allows the person, even in finitude and time, to welcome the transcendence itself. The way of being transcendent is the communion generated by love, which bases the transition from ontology to periecontology, that is the transition from a metaphysics of the neutral being to a metaphysics of the love-being.