tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post7612057590922451916..comments2024-01-28T01:53:28.605-08:00Comments on hyperborea: A Century of Heideggerutopia or busthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330052275507966278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-50890615807821960502007-12-13T12:52:00.002-08:002007-12-13T12:52:00.002-08:00I'm not at all saying LW or MH didn't add anything...I'm not at all saying LW or MH didn't add anything unique. They have another inspirations, Wittgenstein had Frege and Russell, and Heidegger had Nietzsche and Husserl for example. But to understand the development of 20th-century philosophy as a whole, one must read Kierkegaard, just as one reads Plato to grasp the development of philosophy after him.<BR/><BR/>The century of Heidegger (and Wittgenstein) needs to understand Kierkegaard in order to understand itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-41555433038998619452007-12-13T12:52:00.001-08:002007-12-13T12:52:00.001-08:00What? And no mention of Nietzsche?There is, of cou...What? And no mention of Nietzsche?<BR/><BR/>There is, of course, evidence of Kierkegaard's influence. But crediting Wittgenstein's and Heidegger's work to Kierkegaard is like saying, along with A. Whitehead that, "All philosophy is a footnote to Plato." The influence of Plato on all of Western philosophy doesn't entail that we credit him with every idea that follows.Acumenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502771279290190296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-78575731171365858202007-12-13T12:52:00.000-08:002007-12-13T12:52:00.000-08:00If Wittgenstein and Heidegger make up the 20th cen...If Wittgenstein and Heidegger make up the 20th century, then Kierkegaard was the most influential of them all, as he influenced both of those guys (but of course in different ways).<BR/><BR/>Heidegger picked up on Kierkegaard's new use of the word "existence" and attempted to further than Kierkegaard by examining the ontology of "existence".<BR/><BR/>Wittgenstein picked up on Kierkegaard's separation of what can be said and what cannot, such as the problem of Silence in Fear and Trembling, Problemata III. Because the logical positivists didn't understand the Kierkegaardian-like passages of Prop. 6.3-7 in the Tractatus, Wittgenstein felt compelled to clarify those propositions in his Investigations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com