Category talk:German philosophers

German Jews
The Jews on this list should be removed... They are not considered Germans

* Says you! They, most likely, considered themselves Germans.

Yikes. This does bring up one question I've had, namely: who is a "German" "philosopher"? Wouldn't it be easier, more pragmatic, and more inclusive to have a list (or category) of people who wrote German-language philosophy? For example, Salomon Maimon wrote very important German-language philosophy around 1800. (Kant said he was one of the only people who understood him.) But Maimon would by no means have identified himself as German: he was a Lithouanian Jew, and German was not his first language. But according to the title of this category (German philosophers), one would have to exclude this important German-language philosopher on ethnic grounds. I will hereby call for discussion on this, but I move that the category be renamed. I might actually suggest the following, as less cumbersome than "Writers of German-language philosophy"... How about "German-language philosophers"? I think that would be useful for categorizing, but also not exclusionary in unsavory ways. Universitytruth 20:23, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Links to lists
I don't see purpose, why should they are there: should be for appropriate categories, such as: Petr K 22:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * List of German-language philosophers
 * List of Austrian philosophers
 * List of Swiss philosophers
 * Category:Austrian philosophers
 * Category:Swiss philosophers

Was trying to do that; have now made that correction. Universitytruth 22:40, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Category:Philosophers by region
Are you sure that Germany is a region, I until recently thought that it's a state/country (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) :-) What a region do you think? Whole Central Europe? Petr K 22:34, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

This is the issue. It seems to me that what most people care about is important philosophy written in German. Whether written by someone from Heidelberg (in Germany), Koenigsberg (not in Germany, but are you going to exclude Kant?), or Lithuania (Note that no-one has included Salomon Maimon on this list) is interesting, perhaps, for various other reasons.

Do you regard Kant as a German or a Russian philosopher? Universitytruth 22:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you perhaps mean Category:Philosophy by region? Category:Philosophers by region is still a redcat. ProveIt (talk) 13:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Universitytruth 14:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Nietzsche
Where is Nietzsche then? Lord kavi (talk) 19:56, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Heidegger
, why have you taken the notable German philosopher Martin Heidegger off the list of German philosophers? —VeryRarelyStable (talk) 11:03, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Because he is in the category . -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 12:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)