August 27, 1770

Yes we are counting G. W. F. Hegel's birthday (August 27, 1770). This is despite the fact I did not find a cat connection to him. Hegel considered himself the summit of philosophy, and so there is a tenuous link to subsequent philosophers, like, Carol Legg. This Australian thinker cast a philosophical glance at cats:

http://consc.net/misc/cats.html

We quote her:

I defy any non-dog-inculcated, thoughtful mind to explore this page and not to conclude that the images herein display unique catnesses the reducibility of which to a mere set of properties would be out of the question.

She suggests Duns Scotus may have been a cat person and continues this way:

Chapter Two (August 1998). The Paradox of Omnipotence (a difficult problem stewed and fought over by philosophers of a scholastic bent) may be evoked as follows: Could an all-powerful God create a kitten so cute that he could not help but admire it? This problem has now been solved in the person ("animal") of Bruce (a.k.a, Benedict). Behold!!




A problem is that this last post is dated to August of 1998. Twenty years ago--- none of the links work. Has Legg tried to bury her feline speculations in an archive box?? This would suggest so:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001009035404/http://coombs.anu.edu.au:80/Depts/RSSS/Philosophy/People/Cathy/Cathy.html

We therefore were happy to discover her recent work: https://philpapers.org/s/Catherine%20Legg

and that Cathy Legg is now associated with Deakin University. I just hope she doesn't mind her past being dug up like this.