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Border-Line Situation

A category of the ethical teaching of Jaspers. According to Jaspers, Border-Line Situations (fear, suffering, guilt, struggle, dissatisfaction, death, and others) form the "limits" of human spiritual life and practical activity, beyond which "non-being" is to be found. Inasmuch as a Border-Line Situation is fatal and universal, man cannot escape it, and the overcoming of it means the loss of "existence". According to Jaspers, man may make a truly moral decision only when he has realised the fatal nature of a Border-Line Situation.