The human is the unique entity whose Being includes questioning Being itself.

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

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: This pre-ontological, vague understanding of Being parallels Polanyi’s tacit knowledge and the idea that we know more than we can say.

Related

• Questioning presupposes both an interrogator and a being questioned (similarity 0.92)
• Dasein’s own Being makes it the privileged starting point of ontology (similarity 0.81)
• Being is self-sufficient and rejects interaction, unlike every question. (similarity 0.81)
• ‘Being is what it is’ names only the in-itself, not all being. (similarity 0.79)