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Ronaldo Amora
AB Philosophy II Epistemology
REFLECTION ON WONDER
Man by nature is a rational being. This essence of man impelled him to search for
meaning. His rational ability compel him to examine the things around him. As human
beings, we are set apart from other creatures by our rationality. For many years,
philosophers have been trying to comprehend man’s existence and fathom his ability.
And so, they philosophize man and everything that exists using reasons. Plato- one of
very essential because knowledge is impossible to attain without first having the act of
wondering.
When man start to wonder he begins to question the existing things before him, in
this state of man his ‘desire to know’ is being compelled. Using his full
analyzing things. Throughout this search, a man who is wise enough will gradually realize
that the things that appeared to him to be what it is as simple becomes complicated, the
ordinary turned into extraordinary and the common turned to be uncommon. The
discovery of man as he initiates wondering manifests his ignorance that such ordinary,
simple and common things which appeared before him are not fully known by him and
these things now turned unusual. Thus, because of this realization of his ignorance
thousands of years. As a Christian, we all know that God exist, though God is
extraordinary but in our life He becomes ordinary in the sense that we always hear His
name; we were thought by our parents and has been thought in the Church.
Consequently, can God be an object of wonder? Could we try to know something which
cannot be fully known? Well as what we have discussed in our class, it is very clear that
to wonder is an invitation. We all know that God is mysterious- something that we cannot
grasp in its entirety, and because He is mysterious He could be an object of wonder, and
with that we are invited to know more about Him. Though we cannot really grasp what He
is, at least we gradually made a progress of knowing Him. And since every time we
wonder about Him, it is also a continuous mystery. The more we discern partly of Him the
Philosophers over time were using the power of “wonder” in order to formulate ideas
which were also used as tools in many fields. For me, because of wonder I arrived in this
kind of reflection. Reflection is just an ordinary thing for me because I used to it but as I
started to reflect on wonder I have found it extraordinary. Lastly, man’s awareness of the
extra ordinaries in the ordinary things liberates him from ignorance. Wonder stretches our
scope of learnings. Hence, man with all his knowledge will search for reality.