Abstract

What hubris could possibly have lead me to think that, after two and a half millennia of unsuccessful attempts to answer questions concerning the One and the Many, Reality and Appearance, or Good and Evil, I should have definitive answers to offer; that I should be able to give the final word to problems that have thwarted others for eons? The all-encompassing scope of philosophical problems, not to mention their quality, or the sheer number of previous failures to answer them, should act as a caution against any further attempts to offer any final words.