JOURNAL #1

2/12/2013

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sabina capon
2/15/2013 12:17:32 pm

By definition wondering is to show curiosity.

Curiosity is the key to learn and to improve. It is what moves people to try each day new things and what has lead us through centuries. Without wondering about life and how it works human beings wouldn't be where they are nowadays. So curiosity is something that leads us and that moves the hole world.

In some ways, philosophy investigates the world and explains it through the opinions of the philosophers. Without curiosity or wonder people wouldn't try to question the world and therefore philosophy wouldn't exist so wondering and philosophy have a very close relationship. This is my interpretation of Plato's quote.

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Julia Shamayskaya
2/15/2013 01:58:00 pm

People have answered many different questions about themselves, others and the world. There are many knowledge that we relate to common sense, other questions remain unanswered. In order to learn and answer the unknown, people through centuries have learnt, discovered and most importantly, wondered. But what is wonder? Wondering is what distinguishes us from other creatures. All human, some more, some less, are philosophers. We notice, question and discover new possibilities, new changes and new information throughout our lives and generations in order to get the information that some day may become just common sense. But in order for that to happen, humans ought to wonder and this wonder will inspire. After all, Newton did wonder about the apple.

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Wilhelm Nustad
2/15/2013 02:34:23 pm

Wonder is one of the key parts of human existence, it makes us search for knowledge and creates an urge to pursue what we might not perceive as totally plausible. Wonder is a key part of philosophy because it makes us capable of searching for truths that other might think is totally ineffaceable because one simply cannot comprehend a difference in what is perceived as correct, such as the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.

Philosophy and the concept of wonder goes hand in hand because without the ability to wonder you simply cannot have the ability to consider a different truth then what you have been led to believe your entire life. Philosophy is the study of fundamental and general problems such as human existence or science, therefore making it extremely important to be able to wonder because it can create a new portrayal of human and animal existence in the universe.

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Siri Eriksson
2/15/2013 02:42:38 pm

Wonder is a natural part of a human mind; therefore we are all philosophers in a way. Everyone wonders about different things throughout their life, and people come up with different solutions to problems. This shows that the human mind is a great tool we can use in order to expand our understanding of life and its mysteries.

There is also the concept of curiosity. People experience curiosity in different ways, some are more curious than others, which is natural. We all are different, and that is a good thing. Curiosity leads us on to different pathways, we all experience a wonder towards things we are interested in. Therefore we all might be philosophers in our interests, because that is what consumes our minds.

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Sanaa Sergelen
2/16/2013 03:20:45 am

People wonder, they are curios and ask questions and of course there is no surprise that it makes them who they are. Wondering makes people ask questions about themself and everything surrounding them. Asking makes us think, analyse, assume, try to proove our opinion by appropriate evidence and then ask questions again. We get deeper and deeper in understanding of this world, and the deeper we get the more questions we have to answer. In other words wondering is what helps us comprehend this world. That is why wondering plays major role in philosophy. Whithout wondering philosophy wouldn't exist, because philosophy by itself is askig and anwering questions related to problemes of our in our world and mind.

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Mohit V. Dhanwani
2/16/2013 07:32:06 am

When something makes you wonder about the world, it means that it makes you want to know about the world. Philosophy is connected with knowledge and, as we all know, we cannot gain knowledge if we do not take an interest or wonder about the world.
If we did not take any interest in the things that are happening everyday in the world, nobody would care about the fact that we are all here living in this world.
From my point of view, a philosopher argues about the world and about him or herself living in it thanks to the knowledge gained. Taking interest in, wondering about and arguing about the world and your and God's existence, already makes you a philosopher.
This is what I think Plato was trying to say in his quote.

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zihan huang
2/16/2013 07:56:14 am

When you meet some questions, you would like have any mind about what is that really like. The really it means the knowledge. Let we image, if we do something we did since we grew up, you should be exactly to know what is it or why we should do, because these are our habit. But if you have some strange situation or some mind, what should you do, of course, it is wonder, because of the wonder, you could continue to find, to explore. With the time goes on, it forms the philosophy. So I think wonder is beginning of philosophy. We do not have the wonder, it leads to we do not have any dynamic to explore, we can’t find the true from our around. I mean philosophy. The philosophy is from life, the life is created our wonder. As our wonder increase, the true will find with time goes on, so since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. For modern philosophy, the most viewpoints would like explain most things. It is evidence and is the root we find the resolution. But we still have others we do not know. In that way, we would use our wonder to explore and find.

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Xiao yap link
2/16/2013 08:06:32 am

Phylosophy by definition is The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. On the other hand wonder is to think or speculate something. When I wonder about something, I want to learn more about it. Aristotle talks about the science of the first principles or metaphysics,which has no practical use for it so it is a disinterested study, a knowledge for its own good. Yet though we begin in wonder. We may begin in wonder or fear at the way things are and from there to inquire as what the first principles are and how they work.

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Thanh Tin Nguyen
2/16/2013 08:58:51 am

To wonder is, in other words, to be curious and to want to discover more and more about certain knowledge.
Wondering, or showing curiosity, is what distinguishes a human being from that of an animal. By wondering, or by thinking, many great inventions and discoveries have been made by humans. It's a normal reaction for humans like us to be curious about something and want to find out about it. As we wonder, or as we think, the world beyond us opens, bit by bit. The action of wonder links directly to philosophy, as philosophy is the subject of answering the questions that arises from events happening around us. Wondering makes people ask questions; if there are questions, then we have to give an answer to it and try to prove that it is right. Plato simply means that all of us are philosophers, as we all possess the ability to wonder, or to show our curiosity about the world around us. Wondering is very essential in the study of philosophy and to the philosophers, as it allows us to answer questions about the surrounding world and to make different portrays of the world and humans, as different people have different perspective of seeing the world around them. To conclude, wondering is an important part of philosophy, since if people stopped wondering, the ability to understand, explain and interpret the world surrounding us would also stop.

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Jisu Kim
2/16/2013 09:48:01 am

Philosophy is one of the most important part of Theory of Knowledge. Philosophy means 'the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.' Wonder means 'to speculate curiously or be curious about; be curious to know.' The feeling to know something connects to the knowledge. Wonder is the first step of a journey of philosophy. If you don't wonder something, then you cannot get the knowledge. Wonder helps to think about the problem, and makes us want to find the answer of the problem. Wonder makes you improve by yourself. Also, wonder can be an evidence that you are a philosopher. Philosopher is a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields. One of the famous philosopher, Descartes said "I think, therefore I am". It means there is no doubt that he is thinking and it can be the evidence of his existence. Wonder is the beginning of thinking. You think, therefore you are. So, if you wonder something, that means you are exist as a philosopher.

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Hsin-I Lin ( Judy )
2/16/2013 12:08:12 pm

People who are curious are always the one who get more knowledge. In my opinion, there are no correct answers for very single thing in the world, there are too many tricky things, which we can try to get more information and prove it. Wondering things is always a best way to be a philosopher, and a philosopher is the one who is curious and are motive by asking questions. Most of the mammals are endowed with different ways of thinkings, we learn in different ways and also think in different ways, culture is always an important of wondering things. From this point, I would say everyone is a philosopher, we come from different countries and always come out with different ways of thinking and ideas.
Eventually, I would say philosophy makes this world interesting.

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Kasitsak Chupongstimun
2/25/2013 09:35:47 am

Each individual may have their own world of imagination, filled with their own thoughts, constructed by their altered past experiences combined with the imaginary future events they wish would occur. This imaginary world emerges from not their perception of the real world, but from the alteration of their own perception of the real world. People tend to perceive the world, and at the same time, construct another ideal world based on what they see in the real world. Of course these imaginary worlds differ for every individual, but there are possible overlaps, although very unlikely, of these worlds. Culture and language greatly influences both one’s perception of the real world and the imaginary world. However, no matter what they think or know, everyone lives in the same physical world; the real world, or you can say that everybody lives in two worlds, in the real world along with everybody else, and alone in their own imaginary world, which is, by the way, not real. Different knowers see the same real world, but perceive it in a different way. From this we could say that nobody sees the real world exactly the way it is, in fact, what everybody sees in the real world is altered by their culture, therefore, nobody can ever see the “real” real world. Individuals can therefore never agree on what is perceived, unless they are emotionally identical, which is impossible. However, it is possible for them to communicate with each other about that they perceive. Furthermore, they can even communicate with each other about their imaginary world! It is difficult to say whether they live in the same world or not, for each person lives in three worlds, the real world, the real world altered by their perception, and their own imaginary world. Physically speaking, they live in the same world and see the same physical world, but they live in different emotional worlds, hence it is incorrect to directly say that different people live in different worlds. The correct way to put it is that individuals live in the same physical world, but in different worlds when it comes to emotional senses.

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