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    Can We Live Without Enchantment?

    Can We Live Without Enchantment?

    One of Plato’s greatest dialogues describes Socrates’ encounter with the young prodigy Theaetetus, who would become one of the most influential mathematicians of the ancient world. As Plato recounts the story, Theaetetus became so captivated by Socrates’ dialectical puzzles that he confessed himself “dizzy” with “wondering” whether these mysteries and puzzles could ever be unraveled. To which Socrates responded with undisguised joy: “This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.”

    Aristotle readily agreed; it was “wonder” that led the first philosophers to engage in their characteristic activity. And Thomas Aquinas, commenting on Aristotle, explained that philosophers “were moved to philosophize as a result of wonder” and that they are “concerned with wonders.”

    In our own day, the connection between the sense of wonder and the drive to know has been powerfully challenged. Max Weber famously declared in the early twentieth century that the rationalizing spirit of modern life—one of the greatest of the West’s intellectual achievements—led to the “disenchantment of the world,” a cold and forbidding view of our world devoid of even the slightest touches of human spontaneity or the least shadows of provocative mystery. Does philosophy end in a disenchanted world, in which there are no mysteries left to gaze at in wonder?

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    Perhaps that is why Aristotle placed so much emphasis on his notions of logic?

    To counter balance the imaginative spirit of early great philosophers and lead to a more scientific age!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Perhaps that is why Aristotle placed so much emphasis on his notions of logic?

    To counter balance the imaginative spirit of early great philosophers and lead to a more scientific age!
    Very well stated
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