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| I copied the text from a Google cache. I don't know how much longer the forum post or cache thereof will remain online. Apart from the snippet regarding the astounding Mr Common, it could be interesting reading about Nietzsche. | I copied the text from a Google cache. I don't know how much longer the forum post or cache thereof will remain online. Apart from the snippet regarding the astounding Mr Common, it could be interesting reading about Nietzsche. | ||
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| ==For the edification of "DBaba"== | |||
| DBaba recently reverted an edit that noted Kaufmann's vitriolic disdain of Nietszsche. Reverting the edit, DBaba said: "To suggest Kaufmann regarded N as "a poor philosopher" is utterly preposterous." | |||
| I have in front of me, DBaba, a copy of Kaufmann's translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and in the introduction Kaufmann says "Nietzsche's writing...is occasionally downright bad", he expresses his desire for Nietzsche to have "spared us some of the melodrama in 'Zarathustra'", he says "'Zarathustra' still cries out to be blue-pencilled'", he criticises it by referring to "what the book loses artistically and philosophically by never having been critically edited by its author", and he accuses Nietzsche of "painfully adolescent emotions" and "immaturity". In short, the introduction is laced with numerous denigrations of Nietzsche and his work, not to mention attacks against Thomas Common. | |||
| Finally, consider Kaufmann's book "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" in which he writes: "Nietzsche is far superior to Kant and Hegel as a stylist; but it also seems that as a philosopher he represents a very sharp decline." There is obvious evidence that confirms that Kaufmann had a very low opinion of Nietzsche. | |||
| As such, and in order to grant sufficient perspective on Kaufmann's equal disdain of the excellent Thomas Commont translation, the statements regarding Kaufmann's disdain of Nietzsche will have to remain in the article. | |||
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Okay I will provide a source for the addition that Thomas Common was from a place known as "Corstorphine, Scotland". It is mentioned in the following 1917 work that Thomas Common was from this area:
I copied the text from a Google cache. I don't know how much longer the forum post or cache thereof will remain online. Apart from the snippet regarding the astounding Mr Common, it could be interesting reading about Nietzsche.
For the edification of "DBaba"
DBaba recently reverted an edit that noted Kaufmann's vitriolic disdain of Nietszsche. Reverting the edit, DBaba said: "To suggest Kaufmann regarded N as "a poor philosopher" is utterly preposterous."
I have in front of me, DBaba, a copy of Kaufmann's translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and in the introduction Kaufmann says "Nietzsche's writing...is occasionally downright bad", he expresses his desire for Nietzsche to have "spared us some of the melodrama in 'Zarathustra'", he says "'Zarathustra' still cries out to be blue-pencilled'", he criticises it by referring to "what the book loses artistically and philosophically by never having been critically edited by its author", and he accuses Nietzsche of "painfully adolescent emotions" and "immaturity". In short, the introduction is laced with numerous denigrations of Nietzsche and his work, not to mention attacks against Thomas Common.
Finally, consider Kaufmann's book "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" in which he writes: "Nietzsche is far superior to Kant and Hegel as a stylist; but it also seems that as a philosopher he represents a very sharp decline." There is obvious evidence that confirms that Kaufmann had a very low opinion of Nietzsche.
As such, and in order to grant sufficient perspective on Kaufmann's equal disdain of the excellent Thomas Commont translation, the statements regarding Kaufmann's disdain of Nietzsche will have to remain in the article.