Is there a possibility to detach from what is given, as history exposes or cultural norms shape our identity? Is there a possibility to discover something which is not cultivated in a projection of history and present? Do we immerse in cultural moorings so as to forget who we are? Or all real are cultural, cultivated, earned here and now? Possibility is always a process of radical shift from its initial embeddiness or possibility is what is possible to actualize? These are the questions which remain there at its place. Because, some questions are invaluably unquenchable enough to be answered. Simple and fundamental questions remain alive, its fundamental characteristics make it impossible to actualize. Like death which remains a question for one who anticipates to die but never experience the "status of nothingness". For Sartre death is not real, not experienced by self. It is merely a possibility which never gets actualized in experience. Analogously some questions remain alive and beautiful as ever, though every quest of solving it is a never ending task of consciousness. This is what we know as a live spirit which create some meaning for existence, however it has nothing to do with the meaning.
Cosmic energy is moving into various forms and patterns, its quest is to become, what Arthur Schopenhauer called 'will to live'. (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818). He is explicit that: “Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as a manufactory for its own use. Yet even the human race...reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this conflict, this variance of the will with itself…”. Every ‘will to become' is a movement, encompassing the history of past and future; the degree of rationality and its gradation are normativized by thoughts as hierarchy of souls and monads. Human being as likeness and image of God possess the highest truth, indeed! In fact, human being is the only species who possess and owns the truth, it is the only mode of being who puts truth at stake, constructs its horizons and claim of legitimacy and illegitimacy, defi...
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