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by mattmanser 3740 days ago
No brag, but I read meditations in a few lunch breaks when working a manual job power washing ride on lawn mowers at uni.

It's a simple read.

If you'd have said Kant, I might have agreed with you.

Most of the time complicated philosophy (or science) are hard to read because either they're talking crap (Hegel) or they can't write for shit (Kant). Descartes was pretty good in my book (although obviously the 2nd half complete failed).

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I found Kant to be easier than Descartes and Heidegger to be by far the hardest to read of all. Hegel has for me been somewhere between Descartes and Heidegger, but I think its no surprise that Zizek was a Hegelian and also read a bunch of Lacan :D

I think Heidegger is actually deliberately obscure!