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Why this idiot is so important for the history of philosophy? He got totally blasted by his own contemporaries, and his contribution was lackluster at best.
Both my high school philosophy course (that btw skipped Heidegger) and an actual entry level philosophy guide I'm reading wasted pages on this hack. This guide is the worse, it came out this year and keeps Zeno of Elea in an endnote, and doesn't recognizeMax Stirnerat all.
Aquinas himself destroyed in like two words the entirety of Anselm of Canterbury's philosophy, why he is considered so important again?
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>>9894849
Of Anselm I have no comment. But Stirner (like Weiniger) is rarely mentioned outside /lit/. One book that does vaunt Stirner at the expense of Nietzsche is Calasso's fantastic The Ruin of Kasch. If yet unread, read it.
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>>9894849
The only part of him that gets mentioned is his ontological proof. It's important because philosophers like Descartes argue for it and Aquinas and Leibnitz against it.
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>>9894849
>Why this idiot is so important for the history of philosophy?
Eh he's not, where did you get the idea he is?
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>>9896987
not op but his presence in every history of philosophy
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>>9896474
Tell me more.
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>>9897424
He rarely gets more than 10 pages.
And it's important to know who Descartes was echoing with cogito ergo sum and his ontological proof, Augustine and Anselm respectively.
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He seems a tad dull but given how much of his life Gregory Saddler has devoted to him Im sure there must be something there
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