On the Ghosts of Western Philosophy

<p>Many philosophers of different schools have critiqued society and attempted to offer us ways out, but they all seem like dead ends. At this point in time, it may be considered whether these ghosts of the past hold any answers, may they return from the underworld and offer us a path home, or will the ghosts, like Shakespeare&rsquo;s old Hamlet, be led by vengeance? The present is haunted by the past. The present has been sowed with the future, the growth will have watchmen, the specters of the past, that are watching and tending to the half-withering sprouts that almost made the futures we hoped for.</p> <p>When the great philosophers wrote their masterpieces, assembling their grand systems of philosophy, they forgot to consider the shadows of history in their long-winded texts. Jacques Derrida contended that all ontology is, in some sense, shadowed by a hauntology, whereby the ghosts of the past go unnoticed,</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/deterritorialization/jacques-derridas-specter-s-of-marx-and-the-concept-of-hauntology-reflections-on-deconstruction-2eb687322a69"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>