But if in our times the question raised in religion regarding the value of things, of insights and actions a question that in content carries the same implication as Pilate's is once more reclaiming its rightful meaning, then philosophy can well hope that it will no longer occur as so strange if it too once more begins to reassert its goal in its immediatedomain, and that, after having lapsed into the ways of other sciences in renouncing truth, once more strives to rise up to that goal.