Frege: The Invisible Anti-Semite

10 October 2017

弗雷格被认为是当代分析哲学的奠基人之一。他受到罗素和维特根斯坦的尊敬,为谓词逻辑和语言意义分析奠定了坚实的基础。然而,与罗素和维特根斯坦不同的是,弗雷格的个性和私生活很少被公开,也很少为人所知。虽然他的作品影响广泛,但他自己却没有。

In the relative obscurity of his private life, it is a little known fact that the German philosopher was a hard-core right-wing, anti-democrat, anti-liberal, racist, nationalist anti-Semite. While he died before the rise of Hitler, one can only speculate how he would've responded.

This excellent article by Ray Monk inProspect Magazinediscusses Frege, his work, and his startling private life:https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/the-machine-in-the-ghost