Walter Kaufmann citations

Walter Arnold Kaufmann est un philosophe, traducteur et poète américain d'origine allemande.

Auteur prolifique, il a écrit sur un large éventail de sujets, tels que l'authenticité et la mort, la philosophie morale et l'existentialisme, le théisme et l'athéisme, le christianisme et le judaïsme, ainsi que la philosophie et la littérature.

Il est particulièrement connu comme un spécialiste et traducteur de Nietzsche. Il a également publié une traduction partielle du Faust de Goethe, et une traduction du Je et Tu de Martin Buber. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. juillet 1921 – 4. septembre 1980   •   Autres noms Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
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Walter Kaufmann: Citations en anglais

“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
Contexte: 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
Contexte: 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 livre Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Contexte: 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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