Scholars of philosophy from Europe, the US, and China--with a particularly heavy contribution from Hungary--explore the silent and invisible shift from wonder to curiosity in early modern philosophy.
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’sPhilosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will
Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to w
