Curiosity: Value Or Vice?

William Eamon provides a history:

Early modern curiosity was insatiable, never content with a single
experience or object. Whereas Augustine linked curiosity to sensual lust
and human depravity, Renaissance natural philosophers saw it as being
driven by wonder and the engine of discovery.

We've been over this ground before.

(Hat tip: Morbid Anatomy)

Philosophy - Renaissance - Natural philosophy - Human - History