THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION

Among the Controversial Disciplines that are studied today, Philosophy fall in the front line. Plato one of the respected thinkers in the ancient period asserted that Philosophy begins with a sense of wonder. In the Contemporary World there is no doubt that every other day people are wondering and pondering. This wonder is characterized by questions. In daily life we ask questions of what, where, when, who, where and how? Any logical argument or conversation has to engage in some of the above-mentioned questions.
However, the why question is the most forgotten as far as queries are concern. This is the most fundamental question in our digital world. For instance; many business men and women will tell on when they started their business, what and who provoked them to start and how they are administering. 

On the other hand, answering on why they are doing the business become problematic. The same case will apply to the University students. One finds it difficult to answer on why he/she want to become an engineer, doctor or a pilot. The reason why we are even afraid to ask and answer the why Question is because our education systems demands for the “right answer” rather than discovering the “right question. We focus more on memorization.

 Asking the right question implies critical thinking and high order of thinking. If our brains are not trained on how to think critically we will never ask the right question and as a result we remain in the level of immediacy. We are rarely asked to discover compelling questions, nor are we taught why we should ask such questions in the first place. This could be one of the reason why for some individual’s education does not bring any transformation. In this regard, philosophy and education should always be intertwined in our education systems. If this covenant is made it would mean that the concentration is not more on answering questions but coming up with more questions. 

Martin Heidegger, a 20th century thinker, affirmed that the most important question in Metaphysics is; why is there something rather that nothing?  To arrive at this level, it calls for a deep intellectual intercourse whereby knowing oneself becomes the starting point. For instance, who am I and what am I? In our contemporary world we have forgotten the fundamental question of Why since we are too much occupied in a sense that we no longer reflect even on our own beings. Our moral and intellectual conversion has to be provoked by “why” question which can only be arrived when we answer the queries such as who am I and what am I? In answering the “why” question we realize that not all “is” is explainable. Having this knowledge finally we acquire intellectual humility that is most problematic in 21st century.