[Elystan]

Originally Posted by HumanePain

When I first saw the title I thought "Oh no, not another "survey"!" LOL

I envy you Alan. Here I have read only the first five books of Nietzsche, a little of the Ancients and Medieval, and am just now starting Hegel, Schopenhauer and Kant, and it will be a year or more before I start with the French (I'll start with Montaigne and Voltaire), haven't even touched Spinoza and to make it worse have read what little I have read completely out of chronological order, and you have already reached the graduate level, and the other posts indicate reputations of which I had no perception. The more I know, the more I know how much I don't know. But it's the journey not the destination that makes it fun!

Even though jobs for this kind of knowledge are very rare, it is easy to understand how interesting and exciting philosophical studies can be. Reading the above mentioned giants has removed a veil from my mind, and has enabled me to see the veils over other minds as well. It is depressing, scary and yet exhilarating at the same time!

I love this place.

Really, because I only really felt like I could rattle off a list of mistakes really clever people had made hundreds of years ago.