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I have been reading Karl Lowith's book From Hegel to Nietzsche. I am so impressed that I just ordered another copy tonight. This is truly a classic book within the field of History of Philosophy. I have done wide reading in the field of Hegelian philosophy and have studied Hegel himself, and declare without doubt that anyone who cares about Hegel and Hegelianism had better read this book. Likewise, Marxist scholars and devotees of Kierkegaard will find much to illumine and delight them here. This man knew nineteenth century philosophy forward and backward and was honest and fair in expounding every viewpoint. I had a hard time determining his own viewpoint, and that is as it should be in a book purporting to be a history of thought. As a matter of fact, I felt he must be a Christian and perhaps a Hegelian, since he seemed highly sympathetic in expounding such views. I find here in Wikipedia that he is, rather, a Jew; but of course he might have been a convert to Christianity. If he was not, I commend him highly on his ability to present Christian views without apparent bias. This book is such a feast that I hope to read it through perhaps three times and make it a pillar of my education in philosophy. What the nineteenth century philosophers he discusses were trying to do, in large-scale social-historical-religious-or-anti-religious questing, has not been done on such a scale or with such panache in the twentieth century. Very definitely, we need to learn from them. I might say that the future of social-historical-religious philosophy will start not from the twentieth century but from the nineteenth, and Lowith's book is an excellent place to begin if you are but scantily acquainted with that century's unparalleled richness of thought. User:Hugh Higginstalk 02:01 2007-12-06 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skomorokh (talk • contribs) 12:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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