Article: Die Schuldfrage sixty years after.(Karl Jaspers)

TWO CONFLICTING VIEWS divide contemporary philosophers in reading the history of philosophy. One group reads the history of philosophy and the philosophers in it as if the latter were their own academic contemporaries, measuring their predecessors by what they themselves have to say about current philosophical issues. On this view, the fact that philosophers may have lived centuries ago, working in diverse cultures, traditions, and languages, makes no difference to our present assessment. The second group of contemporary philosophers regards the history of philosophy as embodying history and philosophy, holding that relation to be significant in assessing or even ...

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