RELS 2610 Lecture 11: Unit 3: Wondering

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 2610
• Professor: michael Shute

Document Summary

Must pay attention to: you wondering or curiosity, your grasping of patterns, the link between the two. To desire is to tend toward the desired object: this tending it not conscious because we are not aware. When these desires a fulfilled, we are satisfied until the desires return: desires are recurrent, both a tending toward and a resting. The tending is in the desire and the rest is in the satisfaction. Many of these recurring desires we share with other animals: hungry, thirst, etc. Desires ensure our individual survival and the survival of the species to which we belong. Humans however, have a desire to know things: to seek knowledge is to wonder about something that we do not yet know. The (cid:858)graspi(cid:374)g(cid:859) of (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d the e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e whi(cid:272)h alters the experience. Wondering about and grasping meanings are conscious events we experience and can notice.