Q+A

            I think philosophy can be distilled down to two essential aspects: the question and the answer. Together they constitute almost the entire enterprise of wrestling with life in all of its mysterious glory.

            The question is one that you know and love and we have all been asking since around the age of 2. Why? Why this? Why that? Why is the gift that keeps on giving. You can literally take any topic and keep digging into it with one more why (as your parents might recall when you were 4 or 5). Why is the sky blue? Because the atmosphere refracts the other parts of the spectrum. Why does it refract… It can go on forever.

But that’s the point. It’s not so much the single syllable itself as the impetus that lay behind it. It’s our ceaseless quest to discover what knowledge we can about ourselves, the universe and all that come between those extremes.

            The answer is just as satisfying. I don’t know. Epistemology is a big giant bag of fun that I am sure we will unpack—probably quite messily—in the coming adventures of this blog. But I don’t know is the perfect answer when we’re completely honest with ourselves and only feeds into the questions.

Some might see this as a vicious cycle. I happen to think it’s a virtuous one. A beautiful symbiosis that only helps us grow as lovers of wisdom.