While he sees the quest for knowledge of the All as rooted in the early questions of the pre-Socratics, he identifies the German Idealists as those who "discovered" system as the explicit overarching task of philosophy.
These questions are framed by the quest for knowledge of God.
The blandly but frantically cautionary tale about the dangers of the quest for knowledge depends mainly on a suppression of context on a lack of discourse, a script that builds its terror not on that quest for knowledge but on the artificial sealing off of the notion that anything is known at all.
Early purposes were philosophical in nature such as cosmography, where there was a spiritual need to map the relationship between the heavens and the Earth, or for the quest of geographic knowledge, where scholars and explorers attempted to illustrate the known world.
Peggy Orenstein compares herself to Ulysses as she tries to resist the siren call of her online search engine, but the destructive force of the quest for knowledge antedates Homer.
Here Nietzsche claims that the principle of "life" is a more pressing and higher concern than that of "knowledge," and that the quest for knowledge should serve the interests of life.
The quest for knowledge and the spirit of adventure are hallmarks of the trade.
The quest for knowledge, the structure of knowing, is gone; or, even if it isn't gone just yet, he is unwilling to assume the burden of carrying it by himself.
It is heartening to learn that scientists report their primary motivations as being the quest for knowledge and the application of that knowledge in the service of society.
But the quest for knowledge excuses all sorts of moronic misbehavior.
Let historians never forsake the quest for knowledge in the interests of an ideology, a religion, a race, a nation.
