Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 13/12/2024 20:18, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:42:22 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Copplestone hated Kant and schopenhauer

 I've got to hunt down his volume on the Germans. I never read that one. In
general Anglo-American and Continental philosophy go in separate
directions. I feel more comfortable with the continentals.
 

I am agnostic. There is some (to me) very good German philosophy and some very good English philosophy. And some very bad...
...and the aphorism is that all the problems of French philosophy would not have arisen if they had in fact written in German :-)
I think the UK is good on logic, but Germans thought more deeply about metaphysics.
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