Document Type
Article
Abstract
That wonder is somehow highly significant and essential to the human experience is an intuition many seem to share, from Socrates who claimed that the love of wisdom itself “begins in wonder” to the high aesthetic and moral value given to it by Romantics, artists, and poets across traditions. A substantial philosophical conversation has also interpreted wonder not in its colloquial sense as a curious searching for answers prompted by a gap in our understanding and thus antithetical to knowledge, but as itself a ‘way of seeing’ essentially disrupting our ‘ordinary’ experience and meanings and taking us in more direct encounter with the world beyond the constraints of ordinary experience.
Publication Date
2023
Recommended Citation
Lin, Tim, "Caring in Wonder: A Defense of the Epistemic and Motivational Value of Wonder" (2023). Bouwsma Paper Contest. 15.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/philosophy_bouwsma/15