Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann
Walter Arnold Kaufmannwas a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a professor at Princeton University...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth1 July 1921
CountryGermany
critics extremes stature
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.