Frases de Walter Kaufmann
5 0Walter Kaufmann
Data de nascimento: 1. Julho 1921
Data de falecimento: 4. Setembro 1980
Outros nomes: Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
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.
"A ideia de que somente é belo o que é jovem e novo envenena nossas relações com o passado e com o nosso próprio futuro. A ideia de que somente é belo o que é jovem e novo nos impede de compreender as nossas raízes e as maiores obras de nossa cultura e das outras culturas. A ideia de que somente é belo o que é jovem e novo nos faz recear o que está à nossa frente e não entendemos, e leva muita gente a fugir da realidade".
Citações Walter Kaufmann
„The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future.“
— Walter Kaufmann
Context: 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.
Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful http://taimur.sarangi.info/text/kaufmann_time.htm
„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
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), Context: 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.
p. 151
„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.“
— Walter Kaufmann
Context: 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.
Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful http://taimur.sarangi.info/text/kaufmann_time.htm
„The great artist liberates the emotions and recreates the sheer wonder of childhood without surrendering the development of the intellect.“
— Walter Kaufmann
From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959), p. 258
„What makes The Present Age and The Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle important is not so much that the former essay anticipates Heidegger and the latter, Barth: it would be more accurate to say that Heidegger’s originality is widely overestimated, and that many things he says at great length in his highly obscure German were said earlier by various writers who had made the same points much more elegantly, and that some of these writers, including Kierkegaard, were known to Heidegger. Why should Kierkegaard’s significance depend on someone else’s, quite especially when many points that others copied from him may be wrong?“
— Walter Kaufmann
Other books, Walter Kaufmann, Preface to The Present Age, by Soren Kierkegaard, Dru translation 1962 p. 15-16
