My layman's take on this is to take each philosophical school on its own terms and not try to either resolve the differences unless there is an obvious symmetry

My layman's take on this is to take each philosophical school on its own terms and not try to either resolve the differences unless there is an obvious symmetry. Like most americans, I grew up with a fairly pragmatic analytic outlook, and most german phenomenology, for example, just seemed like nonsense to me. When I just relaxed about the whole thing and took it as a different and perhaps irreconcilable world view, I found myself more open to the insights those thinkers had.