Epistemology
Donate nowWhy is it that, unlike animals, human beings are not content merely to store experiences as memories in the brain’s synapses? What drives them to use their intelligence (intellìgere, to understand) to seek the meaning behind events? What gives rise in humans to the need to give a face, a meaning, a logic to the flow of events, to what they experience, and even to their own way of interpreting it all? Who, if not the spirit—superior to every event—impels the human being to seek principles, to find the right “key” to interpret phenomena, and to structure and interpret knowledge scientifically across every domain of understanding?
