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I read about half of the Phenomenology (original language): to me it was just chapter after chapter of stating the obvious in an unnecessarily verbose way. This I've experienced with every philosopher after Kant: Heidegger, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Sloterdijk, ... Yes, they do formulate their thought in more or less systematic ways, which abviously require no little intellect. Still, they are just feeling their way through a dark hallway. When reading Aristotle and Plotinus for example, I truly *knew* I ascertained to something. My knowledge of the All had intensified. Ever since Kant, philosophy has been a major cope imho