Let us recall the mere principles of this ontology of the question: far from being an empirical state of knowledge destined to disappear in the response once a response is given, the question silences all empirical responses which purport to suppress it, in order to force the one response which always continues and maintains it: like Job, in his insistence upon a first hand response which becomes confused with the question itself (first power of the absurd); whence the power of the question to put in play the questioner as much as that which is questioned, and to put itself in question: Oedipus and his manner of never being finished with the Sphinx (second power of the enigma); whence the revelation of Being as corresponding to the question, reducible neither to the questioned nor to the questioner but that which unites both in the articulation of its own Difference: a me on which is neither non being non etre nor the being of the negative, but non being non etant or the being of the question: Ulysses and the response 'No one' (third power, which is that of the philosophical Odyssey).