Kant on wonder as the motive to learn

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8090232
AutoresMelissa Zinkin (Department of Philosophy Binghamton University Binghamton New York USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume55
Fascículo6
Páginas921-934
Data de publicação2021-11-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9752.12606
OpenAlexW3217503414
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas22

Kant writes, ‘to have trained one's children is not enough ... what really matters is that they learn to think’. By ‘thinking’, Kant means thinking for oneself. But how can one learn to think for oneself? I focus on how we can be motivated to think for ourselves and argue that for Kant it is through the feeling of wonder. I make my case by drawing an analogy between Kant's discussion of wonder and his discussion of respect. For Kant, we can learn to feel wonder and be motivated to think for ourselves by being presented with seemingly organised objects that give us the occasion to feel wonder. Moreover, for Kant, sometimes the same object that provides the occasion for wonder is also what produces the feeling of respect, namely the pure activity of reason. In this way, wonder helps us to learn how to be virtuous

Aesthetics · Analogy · Epistemology · Feeling · Object (grammar · Wonder · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Philosophy