Hatice asked:

Immanuel Kant's ideas about the causality law made me think that if the cause/result relationship
originates from us — this means there is no such relationship in the nature and real — why should I
ask this:

Why was I born? What is the meaning of the world and my life?

These are nonsense, so philosophy is nonsense too.

Could I explain? This is too important for me.

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"Why was I born?" is a question which cannot be answered by citing an kind of reason or cause. If we
persist in asking the philosopher to answer this question, then we have indeed made a nonsense of
philosophy.

A biologist will say that I was born because a particular sperm fertilized a particular egg. That unique
event in the history of the universe explains why there came to be GK, thisGK, — you may substitute
your own initials — but it does not explain why Iam GK; why I am hererather than not anywhere; why
there isI rather than no I; why there is this for me.

My existence is indeed doubly absurd. Because it cannot be distilled from the contingent facts. And
the contingent facts are themselves absurd in relation to all the ways the world might have been; the
worlds that might have been instead of this world.

It is perfectly consistent for the philosopher to say, "This question is important, but I accept that it
cannot be answered." There is no law that every philosophical question must have an answer. To
hold on to the absurd question, "Why was I born?", to refuse to give up that question no matter what,
is one of the ways of keeping the sense of philosophical wonder alive.

Geoffrey Klempner