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Originally Posted by Daycare Nation
Nietschze is important as a precursor to the existentialists, but I consider him rather irrelevant now.
Derrida will poison you.
Read some books on mysticism instead of philosophy. Philosophy doesn't have any real answers.
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Sigh. Any philosopher is important to the continuum of understanding - part of the point is that it will never have answers because it will never have simple question. If you're expecting philosophy to explain, in cold algebraic and ontological proofs, the nature of existence, then it will always fail to satisfy. But it's function is never to do that, philosophy operates on a field of understanding which is distinct (though not in its totality inseparable) from the understanding which post-enlightenment notions of science have imparted upon people. Such an expectation of philosophy is tantamount to philistinism or a kind of brute-naivety.