Dienstag, 17. April 2018

Philosophy:

"What separates the Western and Asian philosophy inventories is represented by Kant[.] In China the great figures after Confucius and Laozi were their exegetes and reinterpreters. The same was true in India of the great figures after the Upanishads and Buddha - even Sankara was an interpreter of an existing tradition. The West followed that pattern through 17C, with all the great figures drawing substantially from the Platonic or Aristotelian traditions. But then came Kant, whose contributions amounted to an expansion of philosophic thought after the founders that is unique among the three great philosophic traditions. He was followed by innovative and influential 19C contributions of Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche."

Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment

1 Kommentar:

  1. MOST philosophers has been just like ... writers; full-time artists but not thinkers, nmaybe because a true philosophy would be not like a philotrophy, more ''boring'' and moralistic than a flamboyant/great writer as Nietzche.

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