What is the Origin of Philosophy?
Aristotle says philosophy begins in wonder (or awe). Abraham Joshua Heschel preserves the same sentiment when describing the innate human disposition to spiritual seeking.
But what is the origin of wonder? Is it just the self-evidence of the sublime? Why do we move from a sense of awe to a drive towards enquiry? Isn’t explanation a killjoy? Or at the lea…
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