8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve

As we have previously discussed, unlike science where there is constant progress, philosophy rarely progress. However, when philosophers wanted to solve some of the basic questions of existence, they found that some of them were beyond the limits of human comprehension.

There are eight questions (or mysteries) that have been never solved, and probably, they will never be. These are (I add a description to 4 of them because I consider them the most important, out of the eight):

ü  Why is there something rather than nothing?

ü  Is our universe real?

o   For me, out of these eight, this is probably the most complicated mystery (to give a possible explanation or solution) because we don’t know if the world we are currently living in, everything is happening is real or is just an illusion.

o   That’s what Rene Descartes referred to a hypothesized ‘evil demon’.   

ü  Do we have free will?

o   I consider this question really complex to understand because there is a relation between our actions and what is predestinated for us.

o   We don’t know if our actions are controlled by a casual chain of preceding events, or if we’re truly free agents making decisions of our own volitions.    

ü  Does God exist?

o   This is a tough question because it relates with each person’s beliefs. A Christian will accept the existence of God; however, an atheist will deny it. For that reason, I think these questions should be analyzed from the point of view of each individual.      

ü  Is there life after death?

o   Again, this will never be answered; moreover, it would be until we die, when we are going to be able to ‘prove’ this idea/question.

ü  Can you really experience anything objective?

ü  What is the best moral system?

ü  What are numbers?  

In conclusion, philosophy poses many deep and difficult questions; moreover, sometimes is very hard or almost impossible to give a possible explanation. This is what happened with the eight questions mentioned above, where for centuries nobody has given a possible solution or explanation.