system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Has anyone ever got to a certain point in reading philosophy where they are just completely confused

Is there a way to get out of this without completely giving up?

EDIT: Thanks a lot for all the replies!
gpt
If you're talking about confusion as in not understanding what is meant by what is written, there's a possibility that the work you're reading is, for example, subtly referring to  other major works. Reading works by philosophers can often feel daunting and it's important to try to orient oneself in the conceptual framework that they've partly adopted and are partly modifying. A good commentary can be really helpful in this regard.

If you're speaking about an experience that your thinking has reached an impasse and some previously held beliefs have been thoroughly questioned, what you're asking about could be called "aporia". In the early dialogues of Plato the dialogues between Socrates and his interlocutors often end in impasses where the interlocutors who previously thought they knew something (what justice is, for example) now experience a profound sense of disorientation and lack of knowledge. This state can be considered very fruitful and philosophically important since it ideally engenders a desire to keep searching for knowledge. Aporia is thus a breaking point of philosophical thinking: giving up is possible (and understandable since philosophical thinking can heavily disturb important beliefs) but it's also possible to keep on searching.