This is fun. It comes from 2014 but, heck, in the history of philosophy, what's four years?
Flavorwire compiled a list of the harshest philosopher-on-philosopher insults in history.
Here's the link:
http://flavorwire.com/469065/the-30-harshest-philosopher-on-philosopher-insults-in-history
Their number #1 was Schopenhauer on Hegel:
"Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.”
My personal favorite on the list is another dig at Hegel, coming though from Bertrand Russell:
"Hegel’s philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious."
Here's another good burn, just so I won't be accused of a selection entirely inspired by my own animus toward Hegel. This one again comes from Bertrand Russell at the expense of an even bigger name, Aristotle:
"I do not agree with Plato, but if anything could make me do so, it would be Aristotle's arguments against him."
Ouch!
Flavorwire compiled a list of the harshest philosopher-on-philosopher insults in history.
Here's the link:
http://flavorwire.com/469065/the-30-harshest-philosopher-on-philosopher-insults-in-history
Their number #1 was Schopenhauer on Hegel:
"Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.”
My personal favorite on the list is another dig at Hegel, coming though from Bertrand Russell:
"Hegel’s philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious."
Here's another good burn, just so I won't be accused of a selection entirely inspired by my own animus toward Hegel. This one again comes from Bertrand Russell at the expense of an even bigger name, Aristotle:
"I do not agree with Plato, but if anything could make me do so, it would be Aristotle's arguments against him."
Ouch!
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