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]”?

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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]”?