Knowledge as Addiction: A Comparative Analysis
"All men by nature desire to know"-this is the famous first sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics. It is interesting to note how knowledge, at least since Aristotle, could be understood as a desire, as a mental craving, so to speak. When understood as a desire, knowledge necessarily goe...
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University of Santo Tomas
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_2/moeller_december2007.pdf |