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Curiosity (feat. Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett)

Overthink

CHAPTER

The Value of Curiously

Christian thought in particular has always had a fraught relationship with curiosity because it has often treated it as a vice. Augustine, for instance, suggests that curiosity is a force residing in the soul that moves it away from God. By the time we get to the 17th and 18th centuries, the rise of the scientific method leads to a new investment in curiosity. And so curiosity suddenly starts being described much more positively.

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