Respond carefully to the questions.

Was (or is) there something deeply important missing in philosophy (or in religion, or in anything we do with words and ideas – in politics or government, for example)? Did philosophy forget the first thing about itself – that it is first a self? That being a “self” means something more than just thinking and reasoning, and so on?

How is it, then, that Nietzsche could say that perhaps philosophy is like a raven, inspired by a “little whiff of carrion [that is, dead flesh]”?