On the Essence of Philosophy

This essay of Schächter’s was first published as “Sull’essenza della filosofia”, Rivista di Filosofia 27 (1936): 1–13. It is a translation by the philosopher and mathematician Ludovico Geymonat (1908–1991) of an essay that seems to be written in German—as the German expressions inserted in brackets suggest. Since the original text has disappeared, the English version below has been translated from Italian. The essay was also translated into Dutch and published as: „Over het wezen der philosophie“, Synthese 2 (1937) 10: 395–405.