[lit-ideas] Re: Daughter of a Female Dog


On 5-Jul-09, at 7:59 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
Looks like I should have been more specific. When I say "about him" I mean his philosophical writings/accounts/arguments, not his personal life and its biographies. I believe that philosophy is a discipline in (of the) pursuit of transcendental truth - be such truth of any "service" to anyone or be it of any relevance to one's own or others' personal lives. If we don't psychologize the 
arguments of scientists, why do it to philosophers?
I must confess that the empirical grounds of my claim below regarding quantities 
of crap rest on crudely anecdotal data.

Walter O
MUN


Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:


Walter O. wrote of Kant:
"... no other philosopher has had more crap written about him than he." 

Herr Trogge nominates four others:

1. Plato
2. Descartes
3. Heidegger
4. Wittgenstein
If we move beyond quantity to the nature of the crap, surely Nietzsche is an 
obvious nominee.
Thanks for bringing this up again - I had meant to reply earlier. It 'hit me like a brick' to read the suggestion of Nietzsche; I cannot think of why he did not come immediately to mind. (I am currently leafing through the 8 volume [!!!] edition of his letters.)
I too was relying on anecdotal data for my musings and would be hard put to come up for an argument in favour of any over the other.
There is a very interesting comment about reading other people's mail in the introduction to that collection; and i would like to comment on the rest of Phil Enns' post - later .... 

Karl trogge
Hamburg

Karl Trogge
Hamburg
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