How do we ask the great questions? What does it mean to ask so
profoundly? What does it mean for us to ask at all? Michael Gelven
confronts these questions as he explores humans as self-reflecting
thinkers. He recognizes two central phenomena as fundamental: the
recognition of our own possibility lying within our existence and
the realization of our suspension between total ignorance and
complete knowledge.
Using concrete analyses, Gelven investigates the questions we
ask that may seem initially unanswerable but are ultimately
confronted through our own self-realization. Asking becomes
fundamental when we shift from relying on projected schemes, such
as clocks and calendars that enable answers to ordinary questions
about time, to an ongoing, nonschematic reflection on our own
existence. Not only are Platonic, Kantian, Nietzschean, and
Heideggerian analyses considered, but so are David's psalms,
Auden's poetry, and Shakespeare's plays. Gelven asserts that
fundamental asking is essential to our being: we must ask greatly
first, for the great explains the lesser; the small does not
account for the large.
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