Frases de Walter Kaufmann

Walter Arnold Kaufmann fue un filósofo, traductor y poeta germano-estadounidense. Autor prolífico, escribió extensamente sobre una amplia gama de temas, como la autenticidad y la muerte, la filosofía moral y el existencialismo, el teísmo y el ateísmo, el cristianismo y el judaísmo, así como sobre filosofía y literatura. Trabajó durante más de 30 años como profesor en la Universidad de Princeton.

Es reconocido como erudito y traductor de Friedrich Nietzsche. También escribió un libro en 1965 sobre Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel y publicó una traducción del Fausto de Goethe. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. julio 1921 – 4. septiembre 1980   •   Otros nombres Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
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Walter Kaufmann: Frases en inglés

“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 libro Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Fuente: 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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