Astonishment. Essays on wonder for Piero Boitani. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Aristotle’s definition of wonder in the Metaphysics points to man’s basic drive for learning and truth, for understanding natural phenomena and their causes. From this perspective Aristotle’s words call attention to the capacity for wonder built in human nature as the necessary passion that inspires the desire to know in man, who is naturally a contemplative being. These ideas are fundamental to understand wonder and its development across the centuries.