Well, Hegel’s “murky, muddled” writing for one. What did he mean by “Geist”? Mind or/and Spirit? Can you be an admirer of Schopenhauer and a Hegelian at the same time when he thought Hegel a “charlatan and meretricious scribbler”?
Can we admire someone’s immense contribution to the absolute destructive, nihilism that Marx’s ideology wreaked on the planet, when all Marx had to do was make one substitution to the philosophy of Hegel......Matter for Geist?
This rationalization which actually is used to destroy Christianity and the concept of God and Good and Evil, but leads to the “final solution” has been most destructive to the human race.
I’m not saying that Hegel didn’t have some great insights—all philosophers do, yet I am just referring to the “end results” of his philosophy.
Ayn Rand gave a most interesting synopsis on Kantian philosophy.....in his denial of the possibility of knowledge.
She attributed all of the current negative, destructive, totalitarian direction of “thought” to be the result of Kantian philosophy.
German is muddled in general. Nietzche was one of the few who could write good prose. At least it translates well. I would say that Kant contributed a lot more to philsophical thought than Ayn Rand (is that contreversial?). Hegel and Marx were part of the 19th century urge towards evolutionary thinking (in the broad sense, everything moving forward to some ‘end’). As for the Infleunce Game, Marx was also influenced by Adam Smith (who he admired).