Questioning presupposes both an interrogator and a being questioned

Evidence

Unlike beings, Being is hard to concentrate on and it is easy to forget to think about it. But one particular entity has a more noticeable Being than others, and that is myself, because, unlike clouds and portals, I am the entity who wonders about its Being. It even turns out that I have a vague, preliminary, non-philosophical understanding of Being already — otherwise I would not have thought of asking about it. This makes me the best starting point for ontological inquiry. I am both the being whose Being is up for question and the being who sort of already knows the answer. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 198 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• The human is the unique entity whose Being includes questioning Being itself. (similarity 0.92)
• Being is self-sufficient and rejects interaction, unlike every question. (similarity 0.81)
• Dasein’s own Being makes it the privileged starting point of ontology (similarity 0.80)
• Questioning presupposes that humans are not fully determined by the causal order (similarity 0.79)
• The very act of questioning presupposes the possibility of non-being. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The human is the unique entity whose Being includes questioning Being itself. #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 198