Talk:Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

message: I'm Thinking about changing the article so that Kaufmann's philosophical interests are stressed slightly more so that it is made clear that his works of philosophy are just as important, or perhaps moreso, than his translations. What I'm hoping to accomplish in this is making it so that the reader doesn't see that Kaufmann is, seemingly, "just a translator."
hmmm...Why don't we argue about whether we should crack eggs on the top half of bottom half of the shell?  Like any other artist, WK's philosophy is one thing and his translation of Friedirech Nietzsche should be viewed entirely separately.  WK's opinions on Nietzsche's writing only serve to limit the infinite perspective expreessed in Nietzsche's philosophies (or philologies, oftentimes).  The power of his work was coopted by various nationalist movements and they succeeded in bastardizing his philosophy, to the point where the only translation at all was done by someone with what I view to be an insufficiently stubborn mind to appreciate Nietsche's true points.  F.N.'s used a hegelian dialectic to hold conflicting ideas in concert with one another and then developed pragmatic solutions.  WK will be remember for the translations, if anything. 
DavoudMSA (talk) 12:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to read at least one example of Nietzsche's use of "Hegelian Dialectic" to hold conflicting ideas in concert with one another and then develop pragmatic solutions. As far as I know, Nietzsche did not use any such "Dialectic," hold any such ideas, or develop any such solutions.Lestrade (talk) 14:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's easy to provide citations, if they exist.Lestrade (talk) 14:40, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  hmmm... 

message: Sorry in advance for my ignorance. But is it really possible to "become a Jew" ? I understand one would want to convert himself to Judaism, but I thought (my ignorance) that one was born Jewish, and from a Jewish mother. I didn't know one could convert himself to Judaism. Please correct me if I'm wrong — Lapaz 03:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're wrong :)  It is certainly possible to convert (see, for example, Wikipedia's Conversion to Judaism article), and regardless, WK was Jewish by heredity anyway, which as it turns out, is what mattered to the Nazis anyway. RobLinwood 04:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, Unsigned. The German word "also" means, in English, "thus" or "so." You can't translate the title as Zoroaster Also Spoke. If you want to say the English word "also" in German, say "auch."Lestrade (talk) 22:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A stupid question: on Judaism 

message: I don't have time to investigate it, but the entry 
“Some Typical Misconceptions of Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity,” Philosophical Review v. 63, no. 1 (January 1954), pp. 3-18
is incorrect.  That citation should be for “Hegel's Early Antitheological Phase,” which appears earlier.  I don't know where the 'misconceptions' article is, or if it even exists.
:I think what User:droptone found at Resource Exchange must be it. trespassers william (talk) 16:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect item in bibliography 

message: The proposition "Kaufmann was also immune to the seductions of Heidegger" is non-objective and pejorative. Therefore it should be altered.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.109.142 (talk) 13:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I made the above-contemplated style-change to the article's cited sentence.  Bo99 (talk) 02:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heidegger the seducer - Oh, come on... 

message: Is it true that WK realized his descent after his aunt presented him with a Spiegel from Wertheim's?Lestrade (talk) 14:51, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Enlightenment

message: Kaufmann died ahead of time, 59.
Here is information on the likely cause of death: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/speara/Walter_Kaufmann_Web_Project/Biographical_Information.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.150.118.208 (talk) 04:55, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of Death

message: Someday, this bio would benefit enormously by using a professional bio as a guide, e.g. the bio of this same professor at the Encyclopedia Of Philosophy.  Bo99 (talk) 14:33, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  improvement guide