Is it necessary to dislike something in order to be glad to see it go? I ask because I don't think I've disliked Kant all that much. But after a month of seminars entirely devoted to him, I am super ready to move on.
For one thing, can we all agree he's just difficult to read? Agree with him, disagree with him, doesn't matter. Fact is the man uses big words and arranges them in complicated ways. Luckily, at least he's meticulous about using each word to mean only one thing. Confusingly, the way in which he uses any given word may or may not match up with the way that word is in common usage. It's very hard to talk about a book without saying something along the lines of "I get the impression the author means..." But that right there? The word "impression"? That no longer means what you think. Nor do the words "concept", "idea", "thought", etc.
But you know what? Still better than Hume.
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