at first i was like "hey, hume isn't that bad!" but then hume dived into yet another self-indulgent and frustratingly repetitive ramble and i can't help but think god, i can't wait to read kant just so i can read him tell this guy to shut the fuck up.

don't get me wrong: the earlier sections are very clever works of philosophical reasoning. hume's prose is shockingly very readable and almost frighteningly modern which is rare for a philosopher, methinks, especially ones from his era.

that said, this genuinely needed to be cut down to size. there are entire sections that i think go on for several pages longer than would be necessary. although hume's writing makes it all rather easy — i shudder to think what the reading process would have been like had he been obscure and convoluted — i still can't help but feel frustrated.