Knowledge for knowledge's sake
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[[Image:A Young Girl Reading.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Young Girl Reading]]'' (c.[[1776]]) by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard |Fragonard]]]] | [[Image:A Young Girl Reading.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[A Young Girl Reading]]'' (c.[[1776]]) by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard |Fragonard]]]] | ||
- | [[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]] | ||
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- | “In the [[illusion|illusory]] [[babel]]s of language, an [[artist]] might [[avant-garde|advance]] specifically to get [[lost]], and to [[drugs|intoxicate]] himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd [[intersection]]s of [[meaning]], [[strange]] corridors of history, [[unexpected]] echoes, [[unknown]] humors, or [[void]]s of [[knowledge…]] but this quest is [[risky]], full of bottomless [[fiction]]s and endless architectures and [[counter]]-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only [[meaningless]] reverberations.” --[[Robert Smithson]]]] | ||
- | [[Image:The Heart Has Its Reasons by Odilon Redon.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing]]'' (c.[[1887]]) by [[Odilon Redon]], a phrase from the ''[[Pensées]]'' ([[1669]]) by [[Blaise Pascal]]]] | ||
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+ | *[[Islamization of knowledge]] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | ||
+ | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_knowledge | ||
+ | ... of Life" make some points in common with Al-Faruqi, calling likewise for strong ethical limits and a curtailment of curiosity or "knowledge for knowledge's sake". | ||
+ | *[[History of science in early cultures]] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | ||
+ | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_in_early_cultures | ||
+ | ... possible for early civilizations to develop and more time to be devoted to tasks other than survival, such as the search for knowledge for knowledge's sake. | ||
+ | *[[Pasteur's quadrant]] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | ||
+ | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur's_quadrant | ||
+ | The governmental engineer is behaving like Edison, with the greatest interest in utility, and considerably less interest in knowledge for knowledge's sake. | ||
+ | *[[Faith, Science and Understanding]] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | ||
+ | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith,_Science_and_Understanding | ||
+ | ... and that universities are institutionalised expressions of the beliefs in the value of knowledge for knowledge's sake and the essential unity of all knowledge. | ||
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- Islamization of knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_knowledge ... of Life" make some points in common with Al-Faruqi, calling likewise for strong ethical limits and a curtailment of curiosity or "knowledge for knowledge's sake".
- History of science in early cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_in_early_cultures ... possible for early civilizations to develop and more time to be devoted to tasks other than survival, such as the search for knowledge for knowledge's sake.
- Pasteur's quadrant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur's_quadrant The governmental engineer is behaving like Edison, with the greatest interest in utility, and considerably less interest in knowledge for knowledge's sake.
- Faith, Science and Understanding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith,_Science_and_Understanding ... and that universities are institutionalised expressions of the beliefs in the value of knowledge for knowledge's sake and the essential unity of all knowledge.