What are the biggest unanswered philosophical questions?

Thanks for the question Arslan. Many thorough, compelling and persuasive attempts have been made to answer these questions, but my take is that they are still substantively “unanswered:”

1. What is the nature of being? Of existence? Of reality?

2. How do we know what we know — in the most inclusive, integrative and balanced way? And what is the most constructive relationship, and most dependable process, we can create when interacting with both the known and the unknown?

3. What is the nature of consciousness? And what is language’s role in it?

4. What ethical framework — both collectively and individually — has the highest efficacy for holistic thriving over the long-term? That is, not just for human thriving, but for humans and everything that human behaviors impact?

5. What is “that certain something” that great art captures/represents? (i.e. Kandinsky’s “Stimmung”)

6. What approaches to political economy will solve the dire global cataclysm our current political economy has created?

7. When will humanity (as a whole) begin paying attention to the greatest philosophers who ever lived? (For example, when will every eighth-grade student know Aristotle’s core positions on important topics?)

My 2 cents.

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