=\ Minou, I think we're going to have to agree amiably to disagree. Granted, I toss out 90% of what Nietzsche wrote and 100% of Schopenhauer. But Kant really is the most lucid and grand, capital P philosopher (Philosopher?). Nazis, I know. Whatever. It's not Hegel's fault! His writing is so inscrutable that you could come up with a platform advocating the rulership of moldy cheeses or hole-y gym socks. Snatches of his work, and the general idea of it, are great.
Well, I was unkind to Kant. But you begin to see why all questions of German ethnicity get shunted back to something about Beethoven?
On the other hand, being from a bourgeois German family, I get to have a piano and be an unabashed Francophile. I couldn’t do that last one if I was actually French.
