by Ayodele Abbis

Created on: August 22, 2009

The inquisitive part of us as humans is one of fundamental elements of our personality. Imagine a world where you do not need to ask questions, a world where you just know things by intuition. Can you imagine such? The problem is intuition does not offer us the fascinating activity of slicing and dicing different thoughts, passing them through the darkness of confusion, until we eventually thresh out the positive truth in them. Needless to say, we as humans have a need to understand whatever our minds and senses can grapple with. Cognizance is one of the evidences of existence, in other words, I know that I exist because I contemplate the reality around me, just like Rene Descartes said " I think therefore I am"

In life, change is the only constant thing, and though, we humans have a terrific capacity to recognize change, we only do so by continually questioning the patterns which our minds have recognized to be the standard associated with the changing reality. I think it one of the sad ironies of life that this tendency to curiosity is the only way we cope with life. I say this with no restriction; check every time you have ever had to make a change, doesn't it start with a question? or a realization that commences after a present reality is challenged?.

Philosophy is a body of knowledge that shows the impotence, and yet the profundity of man's thoughts. Man's quest for knowledge, though interesting in itself, does not always produce results that are satisfactory to the curiosity that begins the very search. The ancient philosophers sought to understand the meaning of life, and why life is, In essence. They failed. Rather than satisfy that quest with answers that douse the flame, they've created more questions that are guaranteed to covey any contemplating mind into further confusion. And these questions have never ceased to be asked. Modern philosophy aims at explaining present realities, phenomenon such as religion, morals, ethics starting with man as the centre of the universe, they like ancient philosophers have also raised further questions. However, philosophers have not always failed in their attempts to answer questions, the one main conclusion that philosophers, both ancient and modern, inadvertently agree upon is that there either must be something more to man than meets the eye, or there must be something beyond man responsible for his dilemma of curiosity.

It is plain obvious that if man's questioning nature is what makes him

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