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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on the joy of human curiosity.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on the joy of human curiosity. The mark of a true philosopher needs to be traced to one’s capacity for entertaining and exploiting human curiosity, for it is a curiosity that makes this world an interesting place and endows it with meaning, order and relevance. In that context, any student of philosophy, interested in compiling and extending form to a personal sense of meaning and direction simply could not ignore Aristotle. Aristotle indeed happened to be one of the most important Western philosophers, going by the expansiveness and diversity of his innate curiosity, which gets amply manifested in his contributions in the domain of logic, ethics, metaphysics, science, astronomy, psychology, mathematics and an array of disciplines (Ackrill, 1981). I believe that even if one sets aside the philosophical contributions of this amazing mind, a strong affiliation to the human sense of curiosity that he signified, is a must for leading a meaningful and wholesome life.

There is no denying the fact that ‘existence’ happens to be the primary and most gripping human reality that needs to be analyzed, meditated upon and extended an ideational form and meaning. In a personal context, I believe that the primary purpose of human life is to understand the nature and relevance of human ‘existence’ and to endow it with a sense of purpose and direction. In that context, the thing that needs to be noted is that the parameters and space within which an individual explores the mystery of existence determines to a large extent the focus of one’s approach towards life. For instance, the attempts of the pre-Socratic philosophers like Thales who traced the essence of ‘existence’ in water, or Anaximenes who pronounced air to be the crux of ‘existence’ or Heraclitus who traced the essence of ‘existence’ to be fire, denigrated the mystery and charm inherent in’ existence’ to abject and base elemental origins (Osborne, 2004, p. 29). The essence of life does not have to have purely ephemeral.

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