I heard modern philosophy says I was ‘hard to read.’ Correct. Some of you need a simpler life, not simpler ideas. by Immanuel Kant

Respectable? Your schedule was so strict even your wig had anxiety.

And yet both of you built your careers in the shadow of my footnotes, which is a very respectable shadow.

At least Kant started the conversation. Some of us had to build the whole roof after you left the blueprint in tiny print.

I’m just saying, if philosophy were a dinner party, Kant would be the host and both of us would still be arguing in the hallway.

Good. The hallway is where discipline lives, and honestly it’s still the most coherent room in the house.

You also wrote like a courthouse filing cabinet, but sure, blame the readers.