Frases de Walter Kaufmann

Walter Arnold Kaufmann foi um filósofo, poeta e um renomado tradutor alemão. Nasceu na Alemanha e veio para a América em 1939.

Um autor prolífico, escreveu extensivamente sobre uma ampla gama de assuntos, tais como autenticidade e morte, filosofia moral e existencialismo, teísmo e ateísmo, cristianismo e judaísmo, bem como filosofia e literatura.

Traduziu as obras do filósofo Nietzsche. Ele serviu por mais de 30 anos como professor na Universidade de Princeton. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Julho 1921 – 4. Setembro 1980   •   Outros nomes Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
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Walter Kaufmann Frases famosas

“A má compreensão é a razão principal do facto de que a influência de um filósofo ser geralmente má quando é grande.”

Variante: A má compreensão é a razão principal do fato de que a influência de um filósofo ser geralmente má quando é grande.

Walter Kaufmann: Frases em inglês

“Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly.”

Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful http://taimur.sarangi.info/text/kaufmann_time.htm
Contexto: Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly. In one way it is even more pernicious.
The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future. It keeps us from understanding our roots and the greatest works of our culture and other cultures. It also makes us dread what lies ahead of us and leads many to shirk reality.

“The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future.”

Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful http://taimur.sarangi.info/text/kaufmann_time.htm
Contexto: Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly. In one way it is even more pernicious.
The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future. It keeps us from understanding our roots and the greatest works of our culture and other cultures. It also makes us dread what lies ahead of us and leads many to shirk reality.

“He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.”

Walter Kaufmann livro Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Fonte: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Contexto: There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

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