ABSTRACT
Each generation must answer anew a set of age-old questions. Those questions go to the heart of our existence. They are questions of purpose, being, destiny. They are questions of justice, relationships, goodness. The fact that previous generations have grappled with the same questions is helpful but not sufficient. The questions are so basic that we must address them; we ignore them at our peril. Others cannot answer them for us, although they can give us insights, and we can benefit from their experience. We must seek our own answers, however different or similar to those arrived at by our predecessors. This is so because the search is as important as the outcome and because situations change over time. It is the process of arriving at answers, however tentative or even deficient, that makes us human.
