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As someone who is creating his first post here, I'm a little hesitant to disagree, but knowing our own minds only exists within a specific cultural and linguistic framework. To argue that existential philosophy is the most attractive tool out there is fine, but it dismisses many post-modern thinkers with a more negative understading of humanity. Philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard all show that the existential notions of how the world is is bias through linguistic and cultural forces we don't control. Ignoring that is following a belief that is not grounded in a certain type of definite philosophic knowledge...
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