Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

A Modernist and a Medievalist Trade Insults

Modernist to medievalist:  Medieval philosophy is substance abuse!

Medievalist to modernist:  Modern philosophy is self abuse!

(And that reminds me of a marginalium Schopenhauer inscribed into his copy of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: Onanie!  (onanism)  Wissenschaftslehre translates as Theory of Science.  Schopenhauer, however, referred in print to Fichte's book as Wissenschaftsleere, which sounds the same but translates as Empty of Science.

If Schopenhauer had a blog, what might he call it?  The Scowl of Minerva.)


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