Ha! Ad hominem often tells us more about the speaker than the target. But it's always fun to watch the hens bicker. 8^D
On July 10, 2020 12:03:40 AM PDT, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: >Sorry, typo, I meant "He wrote about him". In the preface of his book >"On the basis of morality" Schopenhauer adds Hegel's philosophy would >be a "pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real >thinking" and describes it as "the hollowest, most senseless, >thoughtless, most stupefying verbiage". He really hated him.The only >interesting thing about Hegel is in fact his "dialectic method" which >is not even from him according to Wikipedia. Today one would say >"whatever you think, think the >opposite".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic-J. >-------- Original message --------From: Jochen Fromm ><[email protected]> Date: 7/10/20 08:22 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday >Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: >Re: [FRIAM] Is Glen a Pragmatist? BTW Schopenhauer hated Hegel. He >wrote him:"Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are in my opinion not >philosophers; for they lack the first requirement of a philosopher, >namely a seriousness and honesty of inquiry. They are merely sophists >who wanted to appear to be rather than to be something. They sought not >truth, but their own interest and advancement in the world. >Appointments from governments, fees and royalties from students and >publishers, and, as a means to this end, the greatest possible show and >sensation in their sham philosophy-such were the guiding stars and >inspiring genii of those disciples of wisdom. And so they have not >passed the entrance examination and cannot be admitted into the >venerable company of thinkers for the human race.Nevertheless they have >excelled in one thing, in the art of beguiling the public and of >passing themselves off for what they are not; and this undoubtedly >requires talent, yet not philosophical" (Arthur Schopenhauer in >"Parerga and Paralipomena")-J. -- glen - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
