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Category Archive: Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “It was also Hegel who established…”

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

October 7, 2021 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “The problem of suffering is: why…”

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

June 27, 2021 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “The first function of a book…”

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

May 7, 2021 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “Job’s forthright indictment of the injustice…”

Job’s forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

December 21, 2020 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “The only theism worthy of our…”

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

December 17, 2020 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “The great artist is the man…”

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

April 19, 2020 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “In all three cases, and for…”

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

December 15, 2019 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “The doctrine of original sin claims…”

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

October 17, 2019 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “Life ceases to be so oppressive: …”

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

October 6, 2019 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “It is widely assumed, contrary to…”

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

October 1, 2019 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

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