Most training of philosophers goes into training to represent the ideas of other philosophers. But to do that well, you need to be at a level where you could have them yourself, and few philosophers are ever getting there.
Beyond the obvious limits of our ability to catalogue and deeply understand the present space of ideas, and their significance to future cultural universes, I think that our ability may be proportional to our ability of being able to ignore the zeitgeist.
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Maybe, but subtracting oneself from the spirit of your time also diminishes your ability to understand your own time on a deeper, visceral, human level. Intellectual abstraction often results in a deficit in other areas, especially when it’s a chronic condition.
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To the contrary: Being immersed in the ideologies of your time makes it impossible to understand them.
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