...is owing," not to the necessity of maintaining animal life or the desire of subjugating matter, but "it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanced little...

...and how far they should be learned by particular people."1 It is true that he said : " For it is in their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize. " 2 But that men should wonder at all is only because the wise legislators of the State found out that...

...owing," not to the necessity of maintaining animal life or the desire of subjugating matter, but " it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanced little...

...of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder" was stated by Plato and maintained by Aristotle: "For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize." To this day, rational wonder is appreciated as "semen scientiae," as the seed of knowledge, as something...

...doubted searchingly. In fact, Aristotle linked doubt with wonder and progress in knowledge: men, he said, "wondered originally at the obvious difficulties,...and stated difficulties about the greater matters." It is from a feeling of puzzlement or ignorance, a doubting attitude, that man's whole search for knowledge...

...origin . . ."; Aristotle, Metaphysics, 982 b; Bekker, II, p. 982; Hengstenberg. I, p. 5; Works, VIII: "For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize . . .." In Anxiety, p. 146, KW VIII (SV IV 411), Beundring is used for "wonder" in connection with...

...philosophy and productive knowledge: "That [philosophy] is not a science of production is clear even from the history of the earliest philosophers. For it is...both now begin and at first began to philosophize. . . . And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant. . . . Therefore since they philosophized...

...to be among the causes of all things and to be a first principle" (983alO).* It begins with wonder, for "it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize" (982bl2). They started by wondering about "obvious difficulties" (982bl2), for example, "automatic...

...people came to be known, borrowed heavily from those who had preceded them. Aristotle himself observed, "For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize" (Metaphysics 1.2.982.0). By the sixth century BCE the great coastal cities of Greek civilization were...

...theoretic contemplation," James refuses the classical explanation of why men philosophize. For Aristotle "it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize. ... A man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant." Thus men pursue "science in order to...