I often wonder how much better those 19th c guys would have written if they'd had word processors rather than quill pens.
When Hegel died he lamented that no one had really understood his philosophy. Is like…dude, maybe you should have explained it better then.
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Upside: backspace key Downside: more words faster Probably a wash.
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When people complain philosophers being obscure is like.. dude,maybe Phenomenology of Spirit shouldn't be the first philosophy book you read
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Not being able understand a mathematics book/paper means the reader lacks the mathematical knowledge required to read the book/paper
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Apparently he was a really good lecturer, tho.
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When he died? Like.... as a ghost? I would guess the lamentation came sometime *before* death....
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That would've involved yet MORE words, though, so maybe law of diminishing returns?
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so let's stop talking about him and talk instead about philosophers who do make sense
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