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Walter Kaufmann Quotes
German
-
Philosopher
July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann
Character
Believe
Book
First
Contents
Function
Review
Give
I Believe
Idea
Should
Some
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Walter Kaufmann
Suffering
Know
Why
Problem
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
World
Suffering
Purpose
Only
Add
Assume
At Least One
Governed
Indifferent
Intent
Preventing
Rejoices
Several
Actually
Even
Least
Need
Them
Whether
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Walter Kaufmann
Life
Suffering
Fate
Punishment
Attempt
Deserve
Explain
Held
Hinduism
Previous
Previous Life
Traditional
Wrongs
Did
He
Here
His
Made
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann
World
Suffering
Difficult
Picture
Account
Cases
Human Beings
Poses
Beings
Human
Most
Place
Problem
Takes
Three
Which
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
Walter Kaufmann
Suffering
Cannot
Assumptions
Two
Assumed
Contrary
Existence
Involves
Per
Somehow
Theism
Therefore
Widely
Fact
Much
Necessarily
Simply
Which
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Walter Kaufmann
Men
Suffering
Sin
Problem
Adam
Affect
Claims
Doctrine
Merely
Original
Original Sin
Sinned
Basically
Did
Does
Fact
Whether
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Walter Kaufmann
Life
World
Suffering
Purpose
Above
Governed
Labeled
Meaning
Neatly
Come
Does
Follow
Given
Must
Nothing
While
Worth
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
Walter Kaufmann
Life
Suffering
Purpose
Free
Ceases
Meaning
Oppressive
Redeem
Give
Lives
Making
Our
Own
Something
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann
Man
Great
Suffering
Who
Advantage
Great Artist
Letting
Pains
Sensibility
Succeeds
Turning
Artist
Growing
His
Most
Obviously
Through
Understanding
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Walter Kaufmann
World
Look
Weird
Injustice
Forthright
Generally
Indictment
Scientists
Surely
Theologians
Unpredictable
Either
Job
Make
More
Much
Right
Than
Things
Ways
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
Walter Kaufmann
Life
Nature
God
Experience
Blood
Brothers
Closed
Existence
Facts
Hearts
Led
Prove
Sheltered
Because
Believe
His
Lives
Must
Those
Voice
Who
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Walter Kaufmann
Religions
Difference
Deepest
Between
Monotheism
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann
God
World
Bible
Respect
Atheism
Believes
Buddha
Profound
Spite
Theism
Worthy
Because
Job
Less
Made
Only
Our
Than
Way
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Walter Kaufmann
Faith
Suffering
Fashion
Try
Compatible
Defeats
Endure
Heretic
Relish
Resentment
Triumphs
Our
Something
Without
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
Walter Kaufmann
History
View
Who
Find
Development
Established
Generally
Hegel
One-Sided
Origins
Owe
Philosophic
Reaction
Systems
Against
Also
Because
Before
Different
Gone
Terms
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
Walter Kaufmann
Man
Religion
Influence
He
Account
Belong
Civic
Equal
Equal Rights
Ethnic
Granted
Hegel
Insisted
Jews
Origins
Became
Because
His
Later
Rights
Should
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
Faith
Person
Belief
Confident
Assent
Command
Evidence
Intense
Reasonable
Sufficient
Based
Every
Means
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