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Neugier ist eine entscheidende Triebkraft, die Neues entstehen lässt, Wissensgewinn fördert und biologisch tief verwurzelt ist. Dies zeigt sich auch daran, dass die Erfüllung der Neugier, also die Reduktion des Nicht-Wissens, das... more
Children seem to acquire new know-how in a continuous and open-ended manner. In this paper, we hypothesize that an intrinsic motivation to progress in learning is at the origins of the remarkable structure of children's developmental... more
What is it like to be an earthly, worldly, “secular” creature? Is it a blessing or is it a curse? During the last two centuries, this question has generally been answered with an appeal to disengagedness and objectivity, that is, to an... more
Offers an account of Hume's response to skepticism in terms of his account of the epistemic virtues, focusing on the role of the passions of curiosity and ambition.
The feature essay in the first publication entitled The Education of the Modern World. Uses the work of J.M. Barrie and Carl Sagan as reference to rediscovering intellectual curiosity and wonder.
John Henry Newman's "Benedictine Essays" develop a strong thesis that Benedictine spirituality is necessarily at odds with the methods of the modern university. Benedictine spiritual life encourages the monk to mortify his intellect, not... more
Si l’émergence et l’essor du Cabinet de curiosité au XVIème siècle traduit l’aspiration humaniste de construction d’un savoir encyclopédique, le statut du cabinet change dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIème siècle pour devenir un lieu de... more
MILÁN KUNDERA - Nació en Brno, en la antigua Checoslovaquia, en 1929. Después de la invasión soviética de 1968, perdió su trabajo y quedó prohibida la circulación de sus libros. Vive desde 1975 en Francia, país del que ...
Un pequeño analisis de la novela de Milan Kundera, "La insoportable levedad del ser", realizado en el contexto de un ramo de antropología.
State-trait research offers good prospects for new insights into human curiosity. It has already generated development of new scales, and several studies have been undertaken independently in Australia and the United States. This paper... more
During periods of developmental crisis, individuals experience uncomfortable internal incongruence and are motivated to reduce this through forms of exploration of self, other and world. Based on this, we inferred that being in a crisis... more
“Certainly for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet arrived, is what must be found. It is the job of the artist to open doors and invite in prophecies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s... more
My aim, in this chapter, is to present a characterisation of the intellectual virtue of curiosity that offers some insight into educating for the virtue, and provides theoretically grounded motivations for doing so. I begin by outlining a... more
This paper offers an in-depth examination of the intellectual virtue of inquisitiveness. A characterisation of inquisitiveness is developed in Part I in which the inquisitive person is identified as one who is characteristically motivated... more
因子 Table 1 日本語版5DCR尺度の因子パターン行列と尺度の信頼性 (N =337) 探究の喜び(Joyous Exploration: JE) α =.83 秘密:社会的好奇心(Covert Social Curiosity: CSC) α =.83 公然:社会的好奇心(Overt Social Curiosity: OSC) α =.87 欠乏の感受性(Deprivation Sensitivity: DS) α =.82 スリル探求(Thrill... more
"La Barbe bleue" (Perrault) VS. "Barbe Bleue" (Nothomb)
Le début de l’essai II, 12 est bien connu, qui affirme à la fois que « c’est à la vérité une très-utile et grande partie que la science » sans qu’il faille pour autant en faire une valeur absolue, et que la « maison » de Montaigne « a... more
La citazione nel mondo musicale schumanniano
The work of the Czech surrealist artist, film-maker and collector, Jan Švankmajer, has been greatly influenced by the Imperial history of Prague as a locus of collecting, magic, and curiosity. This paper will discuss how Švankmajer has... more
Das Buch entwickelt eine weltliche Metaphysik: Es sagt sich von einem Denken los, das auf eine Transzendenz setzt, die ihren Kulminationspunkt in der Überschneidung von Unbezüglichkeit und Weltbeherrschung findet. Demgegenüber zeigt die... more
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov developed a Theory of History to explain the invention of science fiction writing. But it may have broader implications for studies of the modern era and human psychology. This paper summarizes Asimov's... more
From the period that David Herman refers to as classical narratology to the present day, we can observe major shifts in the way plot and narrative sequence are dealt with, giving new insights into the dynamics and indeterminacy of... more
Există un citat celebru pe care nu-l prea luăm în seamă „Profesorul adevărat este acela care poate și știe să învețe dela elevii săi”. Dar asta presupune nu doar modestie, sinceritate, ci și gândire critică, capacitatea de a spune „Nu... more
This paper offers characterisations of the intellectual virtues of curiosity and inquisitiveness and discusses the distinction between them. I argue that curiosity and inquisitiveness should not be regarded as synonymous. Specifically,... more
Les cabinets de curiosités sont remis en lumière depuis quelques années, aussi bien dans les institutions muséales que dans les structures lucratives. Bien qu’ils n’aient jamais disparu des pratiques de collection, on est en droit de se... more