Volume 3, Number 3 · September 24, 1964
After Hegel
By Alasdair MacIntyre
From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought
by Karl Lowith, translated by David E. Green
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 464 pp., $8.50
It is only when we read histories of philosophy of the highest order that the inadequacy of the history of philosophy as an intellectual enterprise comes home to us. For to write the history of philosophy apart from the rest of history is to suggest that philosophy is a self-contained activity. That it is not—that philosophical problems arise out of dilemmas created by social and intellectual activity of many kinds and not only by earlier philosophical activity—is a truth whose importance varies with the period with which we are dealing. It is nowhere more important than in the study of the German nineteenth century.
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