existentialism

I've been reading a lot of it. None of them would really call it a philosophy. It's a way of thought. It makes so much more sense to me than all of the universal philosophies preceding it. I am loving the authors too. They are very good with words. They beat Kant any day. I'm reading Jaspers right now. He's not quite as good as the others, but he describes some things well. He describes existentialism well, so I can understand it.

The most interesting self-contradicting ironic thing about this whole existentialist ordeal is that Nietzsche and Kierkegaard (and perhaps others that I have not read) have said that it is hard to understand, that you can't just read it, you have to understand.

It's funny, to me, that a philosophy about finding truth on the edge of self-annihilation by reflection is hard to understand. It all seems so deified until then, until they say that. And then it makes me smile, because we're all so human, too human.