Speaking of incomprehensible philosophies and such (my own being the most irrelevant and bizarre of them all), I present to you this fundamental law of human behavior:
Reading Kant causes you to fall asleep.
I do not yet have an argument by which I might support this, but having switched to Hume in order to wake up (and it has worked), it may be the viewing of the events 100 times that leads me to infer such a conclusion.
It is magical – the language which Kant uses is totally normal; his ideas are quite attractive. But then the eyelids begin to feel heavy, and suddenly one is asleep! On the other hand, reading Sartre, Russell, Hume, etc. have the effect of arousing the mind and leading to tangential philosophical adventures.
What is it about Kant that singles his work out here? Perhaps it is because he is more likely than any of these others to be on the exam on Wednesday? Perhaps I am just stupid and wasting time?
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