The Genesis of Question:From Mysteries to Questions
We are always questioning.Philosophy should not overlook the investigation of questioner,question,and questioning.Philosophical research from different traditions since the 20th century have all acknowledged the epistemological fundamentality of questioning.However,although much attention has been paid to the process from asking to solving the problem/question,much less has been paid to the genesis of question and questioning itself.This article studies the problematic state before the possession of questions,in which potential questions are brewing while no explicit question is at hand,and the process by which questions arise from this state.Insights into the origin of questioning first come from existential phenomenology:Marcel,Tillich,and Patočka,in different ways,trace the question of being back to the sense of astonishment inspired by the mystery.Their insights apply not only to the question of being,but also has more general theoretical implications.Dewey's theory of reflective thinking details how explicit questions arise from perplexed situations that precede them,and provides the possibility of generalizing the insights of existential phenomenology.Combining the two,I present a synthetic account of how questions are borne from the transformation of mysteries.
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