This is one of the consequences of phenomenology as an investigation of “origins,” a reflection on “beginnings”2 To be open to being guided exclusively by the “original” requires not only a freedom from presuppositions, but an orientation to the “newness” of the origin, of its originality; accordingly, of prime importance is a willingness to begin philosophy “ever anew.” Thus “philosophy” as a fully developed, functioning reflection is, as it were, the result; the beginning is only the promise of something like philosophy, which is accompanied at most by a vague sense of what is at stake in philosophy, but by no means a prior, explicit understanding of its content.