Nonetheless, Foucault thinks that the modern pursuit of the question of origins has provided us with a deeper sense of the ontological significance of time, particularly in the thought of Nietzsche and Heidegger, who reject Hegel's and Marx's view of the return to our origin as a redemptive fullness of being, and instead see it as a confrontation with the nothingness of our existence.
So perhaps what connects us is that we all don't feel closely attached to our origin and love to travel on the occasion of art and music.
"It does bring us full circle back to our origins," Geidner-Antoniotti said.
As noted above, publicly engaged philosophy, is, in some sense, a return to our origins as professional philosophers.
Keys to our origins are visible on a grand scale, in the heavens, and on much smaller scales, in the elemental bits of our planet and our bodies.
It is perhaps surprising how often it is assumed that a look back to our origins will lead us to the meaning of life.
And these ideas in turn reach back to our origins — to the America of 1776, which many will celebrate on Friday, or to an even earlier time, to the first period of European colonization.
"We wanted to go back to our origins, to the experience of ishumar," which means exile or being adrift, explained Eyadou ag Leche, the band's bass player, speaking in French during an interview in New York in July.
Many studies point to our origins as a persistence hunter: unable to outsprint a deer, but capable of pursuing it for one or two days until the animal collapses from exhaustion, just as the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico still do.
Arguing for a greater public-facing role for philosophy is, in some sense, a return to our origins, a recognition that philosophy is, most fundamentally, found in common and widespread challenges we face in social and political life.
Not that there is much reason to suppose the creator had a purpose anyway: if we take a long, cold look back to our origins, we just find ape-like ancestors and an evolutionary trail that leads back to the big bang.
