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Originally Posted by MartinParish
Ultimately, though, I think a few of the great philosophers of the past may be worth reading regardless of whether they remain relevant or not. Reading their work can be a great way to connect with someone who, centuries apart from you though they may have been, faced some of the same kinds of problems that we all face in life and came up with their own unique solutions - a little chapter of the human experience that enriches our understanding of what it means to be human in this strange and often lonely little world.
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I recenty watched a YouTube
video about Descartes; about 4 minutes into the final section, Bernard Williams reaches similar conclusions about why it was worth spending 20 years studying Descartes, even though there was a lot wrong with what Descartes was saying.