jaspers’ concept of exsitenz

this paper tries to describe the way jaspers understands the term ‘existence’. according to jaspers ‘existence is ’ indefinable. if so, how then can it be expressed? not by concepts,but by what jaspers calls ‘signa’. the terms such as ‘existence’, ‘freedom’ and ‘selfhood’ are examples of such ‘signa’. however, ‘signa’ per se have no objectivity for consciousness, no independent meaning. from the point of view of (under the terms of) general sciences there are no such things like ‘existence’, ‘freedom’ and ‘selfhood’. although, jaspers explains, the existential reality can’t be proven as well as experimental being, but it can be pointed out. after analyzing the different definitions, he concludes that ‘existence’ is the original selfhood of individual, which carry out his own self with a free and absolute resolve. ‘existence’ as a possibility accompanies the merely life, a possibility, which each individual can grasps or ignores.