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Instead they drink themselves to a stupor six days of the week and spend the remainder recovering from their escapism. Today philosophy degrees seem to be handed out liberally at most colleges to drug using pseudo intellectuals who don’t actually live their words. Philosophy means making sure your actions, decisions and judgments are honest. No concern about doing what’s right or sculpting this realm, just stagnation and elitist segregation.Īs Walter Kaufmann so precisely put it in The Faith of a Heretic, philosophy is the quest for honesty: a lifelong campaign of indelible and fanatical resistance against falsity and the often unchecked designs of sophists. Too much nose-raised talk and not enough action in contemporary academic ‘philosophy’ – nothing is being said, hollow words and empty propositions blathering without conviction. Living without pretension makes you a philosopher.

Acting in conformance to your theorems makes you a philosopher. Living your words makes you a philosopher. Half heartedly pondering on esoteric things, ultimate meanings, and running in circles of analysis doesn’t make you a philosopher. All Rights Reserved.€œIs it reasoning alone that makes a philosopher?” His Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre (1956), a selection of texts which he edited and introduced, helped popularize existentialist philosophy in the United States. He also translated Goethe's Faust and Martin Buber's I and Thou. Hollingdale) Nietzsche's Will to Power (1967), as well as several of his other works. His best-known writings include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Anti-Christ (1950), Critique of Religion and Philosophy (1958), The Owl and the Nightingale: From Shakespeare to Existentialism (1959), The Faith of a Heretic (1961), Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary (1965), Tragedy and Philosophy (1968), Religions in Four Dimensions (1976), Man's Lot (3 vols., 1979), and Discovering the Mind (Trilogy, 1980). He made an attack on theology of all kinds and favored a naturalistic, humanistic approach. Kaufmann was a vigorous opponent of arguments for religion. His main interests were philosophy of religion, social philosophy, and the history of ideas since the 19 th century. He remained at Princeton throughout his career. Kaufmann began teaching philosophy at Princeton in 1947 and became a full professor in 1962. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the United States Army Air Forces and Military Intelligence Service. in 1939 and studied at Williams College and Harvard University, where he received his B.A. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Kaufmann was raised as a Lutheran but returned to Judaism.