Even to himself

露西亜ではカント解釈を巡って殺人未遂事件まで起こったわけだが*1

Roger Scruton Kant: A Very Short Introductionの”Preface to the first edition”から。この本が難しいことへの言い訳;


(…) Since Kant is one of the most difficult of modern philosophers, I cannot hope that I have made every aspect of this thought intelligible to the general reader. It is not clear that every aspect of his thought has been intelligible to anyone, even to Kant*2. The depth and complexity of Kant's philosophy are such that it is only after complete immersion that the importance of its questions, and the imaginative power of its answers, can be understood. Kant hoped to draw the limits of the human understanding: he found himself cpmpelled to transcend them. Readers should therefore not be surprised if they have to read this introduction more than once in order to appreciate Kant's vision. (…)
Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)