[FRIAM] Is Glen a Pragmatist?

[glen]

Ha! Ad hominem often tells us more about the speaker than the target. But it's always fun to watch the hens bicker. 8^D

On July 10, 2020 12:03:40 AM PDT, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
>Sorry, typo, I meant "He wrote about him". In the preface of his book
>"On the basis of morality" Schopenhauer adds Hegel's philosophy would
>be a "pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real
>thinking" and describes it as "the hollowest, most senseless,
>thoughtless, most stupefying verbiage". He really hated him.The only
>interesting thing about Hegel is in fact his "dialectic method" which
>is not even from him according to Wikipedia. Today one would say
>"whatever you think, think the
>opposite".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic-J.
>-------- Original message --------From: Jochen Fromm
><jofr at cas-group.net> Date: 7/10/20  08:22  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
>Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject:
>Re: [FRIAM] Is Glen a Pragmatist? BTW Schopenhauer hated Hegel. He
>wrote him:"Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are in my opinion not
>philosophers; for they lack the first requirement of a philosopher,
>namely a seriousness and honesty of inquiry. They are merely sophists
>who wanted to appear to be rather than to be something. They sought not
>truth, but their own interest and advancement in the world.
>Appointments from governments, fees and royalties from students and
>publishers, and, as a means to this end, the greatest possible show and
>sensation in their sham philosophy-such were the guiding stars and
>inspiring genii of those disciples of wisdom. And so they have not
>passed the entrance examination and cannot be admitted into the
>venerable company of thinkers for the human race.Nevertheless they have
>excelled in one thing, in the art of beguiling the public and of
>passing themselves off for what they are not; and this undoubtedly
>requires talent, yet not philosophical" (Arthur Schopenhauer in
>"Parerga and Paralipomena")-J.
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glen