| Just got my copy of "Heidegger's Confusions" by Paul Edwards
From the preface:
"Bertrand Russell once referred to Kant as the greatest catastrophe in the history of philosophy. C.D. Broad commented that this position surely belonged to Hegel. Both Russell and Broad were wrong, because this title undoubtedly belongs to Martin Heidegger.
"Some years ago, Anthony Quinton spoke of Heidegger's 'ponderous and rubbishy woolgathering.' Until fairly recently, Heidegger was not taken seriously by philsophers in Great britain and the United States. Unfortunately this is no longer the case."
Edwards also prefaces the book with the following quotes:
"Those metaphysical philosophers are the greatest sinners, who, as if they were saying something of importance, make 'Reality' or 'Being' the subject of their propositions" -----Gilbert Ryle
"An almost unbelievable amount of false philosophy has arisen through not realizing what 'existence' means....[It] rests upon the notion that existence is, so to speak, a property that you can attribute to things, and that the things that exist have the property of existence and the things that do not exist do not. that is rubbish"---------Bertrand Russell
"Everything ponderous, viscous and solemnly clumsy, all long-winded and boring types of style are deeloped in profuse variety among Germans."--------Friedrich Nietzsche
I do believe I am going to enjoy reading this book.
George |