Ms. Blackwell understands that, like soylent green, philosophy is made from people. Husserl, with a mathematics background, tried to do philosophy by abstracting it from the real world. With amy mathematics background, this made sense to me while I never understood Heidegger, who tried to start from how people actually lived. These are people from my parents' generation so I could bring that part of my life into the understanding. As actual humans, they were full of the complicated contradictions that mathematics avoids, which, as a reluctant human, attracted me to it.