Sunday, May 10, 2009

Philosophy is Wonder

"Philosophy begins with wonder, and even now it is wonder that causes philosophers to philosophize. At first they wondered about the obvious difficulties and then they gradually progressed to puzzle about the greater coming to be of the universe. Whoever is puzzled and in a state of wonder believes he is ignorant .... (and begins to Philosophize) ....."
Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1.2 982b.
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3 Comments:

Sophia said...

Amen, brother!

Have you ever read _Sophie's World_?

All I can say is, "Wow!"

Rambler said...

oh this was interesting, worth thinking about

jon be me said...

Yea guys, I thought this was a great saying by Aristotle...have to agree with him!

Sophia, cant say I have read Sophias world. What is her world about? Does it compare to sophias vision of the world????......

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