Grube:In paradise as always

It is difficult to tell the truth. For there is only one, but it is alive and therefore has a constantly changing face. - Franz Kafka (In a letter to Milena Jesenská) As a philosopher, Kafka has not yet made an appearance; he himself would hardly have understood himself as such. Can we still speak of a philosophy, i.e., of the connection of a thought that was clear to Kafka himself - at least after Zürau? Considering mostly overlooked motives, a connection of thought appears with beautiful clarity even with an uncommented sorting of the Zürau texts. In the echoes of the prose, according to hints in the diary, and especially in light of the self-statements about the personal reason for his thinking, an extraordinarily hopeful philosophy emerges with poetic plausibility. Kafka's thinking revolves around the paradox of incompleteness and certainty. For him, truth is not an impossible concept, and speaking of faith is not foreign. The discovery of the unquestionable within himself, to which he did not have to change much, but only had to trace the old, narrow outlines of his being, seems to be the agent of a practical philosophy, where Kafka ultimately concerns himself with the immediate needs of life, especially regarding the question of forming a sense of responsibility, an ethical musicality.