“Just what about man qualifies him to search for meaning, whatever that might be?”
Because man thinks and in thinking wants to know. What qualifies him to give answers to that search may be another matter.
Mel
“What qualifies him to give answers to that search may be another matter.”
We can only testify to the answers we have encountered, our reasons for endorsing or challenging them, choose our starting point and intended destination, and progress as far towards the destination as the span of life allows, perhaps turning to new starting points and new destinations as our experiences and judgment dictate. At the end of the trail, our testimony and the record of the consequences of our various pursuits will become our contribution to the general search, to the extent anyone knows or remembers them.