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Lorenzo Elijah, PhD May 3
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Parfit sums up my feelings on Kant’s writing style.

But Parfit also recognised Kant as his biggest influence alongside Sidgwick.

In this post I explain the main argument of Kant’s masterpiece so you don’t have to read his writing.

“The first problem is Kant’s style. It is Kant who made really bad writing philosophically acceptable. We can no longer point to some atrocious sentence by someone else, and say ‘How can it be worth reading anyone who writes like that?’ The answer could always be ‘What about Kant?
Lorenzo Elijah, PhD
May 3
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