[lit-ideas] Re: Daughter of a Female Dog
- From: karltrogge@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:12:55 +0200
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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