ABSTRACT
The upper Palaeolithic cave paintings of the Grotte de Niaux (France), the urbanisation of Machu Pichu (Peru), the reflections of the once contemporaries—Confucius and Plato—Dvorák’s New World Symphony or those of Mahler, Shakespeare’s dramas, the stories in the Pentateuch, etc. are milestones of humanity seen questioning itself. Buber asked “what is man?”, a question with no resolution and open to all possible answers. It is a question as immense as solving the mystery of the Holy Trinity, according to the anecdote related by St. Augustine: it would be as impossible to fathom that mystery as it would be to pour the whole ocean into a hole in the sand on a beach. Notwithstanding the magnetism and the magnitude of the question, one could remain silent. Another option would be to pretend to answer it omnipotently. Yet another would be to narrow it down and try to delve deeply into some area.
