Walter KaufmannThinkers

Faith is for job, maintained not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that.

Friedrich Nietzsche is the first major German philosopher who was not strongly influenced by Kant. he was steeped in Goethe, but he was free of the fateful compulsion to reconcile Goethe with Kant.

God is, for Job, respected not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that.

Monotheism is to be denounced because the belief in one God led to one norm for men to conform to, thus retarding the development of individuality. Polytheism, by contrast, allowed for a multiplicity of norms.

Psychoanalysis is a science, but rather than a science emulating the physical sciences, it is a 'poetic science of the mind' in the vein of 'poets and novelist, sophocles, shakespeare, and dostoevsky-- and goethe,' who, along with nietzsche and freud, have contributed most to the discovery of the mind.

Psychoanalysis is indeed a science, but within a scientific tradition different from the one that has emphasized quantification and taken the physical sciences as its paradigm.

The Word is such that words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.