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By Kenneth Haynes

Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) is an enormous determine not just in German philosophy but in addition in literature and spiritual historical past. In his personal time he wrote penetrating criticisms of Herder, Kant, Mendelssohn, and different Enlightenment thinkers; after his demise he was once a major determine for Goethe, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and others. It was once basically within the 20th century, even if, that the total and radical quantity of his 'linguistic' critique of philosophy was once well-known. This quantity offers a brand new translation of a big variety of his essays, together with either well-known and lesser-known works. Hamann's enigmatic prose-style was once intentionally at odds with Enlightenment assumptions approximately language, and a whole gear of annotation explains the various allusions in his essays. the quantity is done by way of a old and philosophical creation and proposals for additional examining.

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Fowler, Loeb Classical Library). Plato, Phaedrus b. Hamann capitalizes the word that contains the Greek d»xa in the context in which it means “opinion,” in order to attack Michaelis, whose treatise praised the Greeks for their glory, another meaning of the word (see pp. – of the English translation of Michaelis’ essay). ”] DOXASTIKHN . . perª p†ntwn –pistžmhn ¾ sojistŸv ¡m±n ˆll ì oÉk ˆlžqeian ›cwn ˆnap”jantai. The Stranger from Elis in Plato’s Sophist. DÅo g†r, –pistžmh te kaª DOXA, æn t¼ m•n –p©stasqai poie±, t¼ d• ˆgnoe±ná ¡ m•n oÔn –pistžmh poi”ei t¼ –p©stasqai, ¡ DOXA t¼ ˆgnoe±ná t‡ d• ¬er‡ –»nta pržgmata ¬eiro±sin ˆnqrÛpoisi de©knutaiá beblžloisi d• oÉ q”miv, prªn £ telesqäsin ½rg©oisin –pistžmhv.

The lips of knowledge” Luther and Hamann have lernst nichts (“learn nothing”).  Because you wear the features of human ignorance and curiosity on your face, I will confess to you the identity of the two on whom I intend to perform, through your hands, this pious fraud. The first works on the philosopher’s stone like a friend of mankind who views it as a means to promote industry, bourgeois virtues, and the welfare of the commonwealth. ” In  Kings , Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a contest.

Lkh ta hn[y #skhr, Ecclesiastes : – – šn dž ti de± e²nai, toÓto d ì –x Ëpoq”sewvá di¼ n»misma kale±taiá toÓto g‡r p†nta poie± sÅmmetraá metre±tai g‡r p†nta nom©smati, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book , chapter . In the first book of the Politics, he takes money to be stoice±on kaª p”rav t¦v ˆllag¦v. ” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics b: “There must therefore be some one standard, and this accepted by agreement, which is why it is called nomisma, customary currency; for such a standard makes all things commensurable, since all things can be measured by money (tr.

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