bloggers in the history of philosophy

Somehow it feels like I’ve raised this issue before, but I think I actually haven’t… Which figures from the history of philosophy would have been the most interesting bloggers?

Nietzsche is a fairly good guess, and it would have been fun to keep up with his movements between Switzerland and Italy. My one worry is whether knowing that he had a regular, consistent audience would have made him self-conscious in such a way as to affect the style. The tone of schizoid isolation woven through all his works has, ironically, a salutary influence on the style.

Schopenhauer might make for a nice, cranky blogger, with piercing observation on day-to-day events.

Emerson would probably be pretty good.

The worst potential blogger would have to be Hegel, though. It’s hard even to imagine a Hegel blog.