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What is knowledge for the sake of knowledge?
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge: Understanding the relationship between curiosity, exploration, and reward. Recent work has reinvigorated the scientific approach to this topic by shifting from trait-level questions to a neurobiological perspective that emphasizes behavior, exploration and information-seeking.
What does it mean to pursue knowledge for its own sake?
Socrates conceived that knowledge is for pleasure, Regardless of what sort of child sits before us, learning to love and pursue knowledge for its own sake is the ideal. We shoot for the ideal, knowing that we may never reach it, because we are better people for having aimed at it rather than mediocrity.
Who said knowledge for its own sake?
Quote by Albert Einstein: “The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an a…”
Who said I serve knowledge for the sake of knowledge and not for money?
When Sultan Masood sent him three camel-loads of silver coins in appreciation of his encyclopedic work “Al-Qanoon al-Masoodi,” (The Mas’udi Canon), Al-Biruni politely returned the royal gift saying, “I serve knowledge for the sake of knowledge and not for money.”
Why should we pursue knowledge?
Knowledge allows you to know what you can do – so the more you know, the more you can do, the more places you can go. As you gain knowledge, the world you live in changes around you. There is more depth to life, you experience profound and magical things. With knowledge, you can teach others, make friends, be a leader.
Is knowledge considered a value?
It’s true, then, that insofar as being human is valuable, knowledge is necessary (and instrumentally valuable, at least). Philosophers have attempted to assess the value of knowledge in relation to other sorts of cognitive states (belief and true belief, for instance) as well as the place of wisdom in the good life.
What kind of value is knowledge?
Knowing is the most general factive mental state of which perceiving is a species. Knowledge is valuable because we value a match between mind and world. Since knowledge is not decomposable, we need not explain why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief, or more valuable than justified true belief.