Why Are Philosophers Hard To Understand?
Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Husserl—these guys are pretty dense, each in their own way. And many smart, thoughtful people I know complain that at least some of them are altogether incomprehensible. Life is too short to spend reading a paragraph over and over in the hope that it will eventually break open and reveal its meaning. Why—if these thinker…
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