[A critical comment, co-authored by Daniel-Pascal Zorn and myself]*
This year’s Essay Award Question of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP) is phrased as follows: What did Plato, Kant or Arendt grasp better than current analytic philosophy?
The question seems to target the relation of current analytic philosophy to the history of philosophy. The focus is a timely one.** But at least on social media, the precise phrasing of the question triggered some astonishment.
Daniel-Pascal Zorn and I got interested in an exchange about this question and we quickly noticed that our concerns converge. Thus, we decided to write a comment (in German) and address two issues: first, we want to look at the presuppositions behind this question; second, we want to consider criteria for possible answers to the question.
Our comment is currently published here.* If you like, feel free to leave a comment in German or English below this blog entry.
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* Now also published, with slightly fewer typos, on the German philosophy blog praefaktisch.
** See also my post from 2019 directly on this issue.
Handling Ideas 
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