Fixed Cross Tower
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| Subject: The word "Spirit" in Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:24 am | |
| is an at best misleading, often downright erroneous translation of Geist, which most notably means mind.
In a religious context it would make sense to interpret it a ' the spirit ' but in philosophy, it makes sense only as thought, mind, the place where consciousness resides. | |
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Sisyphus Path
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| Subject: Re: The word "Spirit" in Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:52 am | |
| In my little pocket dictionary the first translated word is spirit. The third is mind. (Second is ghost.)
English "mind" to German first is gamut, second is geist.
But yes, for Nietzsche, I think it would be indicating mind.
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