All Thing Shining Essay

As those familiar with the “actual” discipline of Philosophy can attest, there is a vast disconnect between what philosophy means, what philosophy does, and the questions philosophy asks. The usually pretentious divide between labels of “Continental” and “Analytical” pervade the presentation of any project towards groupings so labeled.

Honestly, have you read Kant? Are you familiar with Rawls? Similarly, can you understand Heidegger? How about Nietzsche viz., are you sure you know what the latter group are presenting and how is it different from the former? The point is that an approach to the metaphysical questions of life is handled in vastly different ways with just as many varied interpretations. What ultimately seems to be important is if there is a way to reach past the nihilistic interpretation that seems beholden to the modern secular age. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly seem to think so, and I tend to agree; at least in spirit.
To be sure, these are the three big literary draws to the project, but they are only ancillary characters to the landscape of finding meaning throughout Western History. The key question posed is how we can find meaning in our modern era with its fast encroaching embracement of technological and spiritual nihilism.
Perhaps it depends on the questions you are asking?
Shouldn't it start with being [ousia]?
How do we recognize how being human has molded the Western