https://www.pitara.com/tags/philosophy-and-exploration/Recent content in Philosophy and Exploration on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/aristotle-cant-remain-ignorant/Fri, 17 Dec 2004 02:54:54 +0000https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/aristotle-cant-remain-ignorant/<p>The Greeks were a passionately curious lot. When Alexander the Great set off in 334 BC on the famous expedition that took him over the Hindukush into Tashkent and Kashmir, he was accompanied not only by navigators, guides and surveyors, but historians and philosophers as well.</p> <figure class="image-portrait-right has-caption"> <a href="https://www.pitara.com/media/features-163_1.gif" aria-label="Link to larger image"> <img src="https://www.pitara.com/media/features-163_1_hu_438f6e6efd5b90ef.gif" width="450" height="563" alt="Aristotle can’t remain Ignorant! [Illustration by Shinod AP]" loading="lazy"> </a> <figcaption>Aristotle can’t remain Ignorant! [Illustration by Shinod AP]</figcaption> </figure> <p>Alexander had been taught by the philosopher Aristotle, and we are told that he ordered everyone throughout Greece and Asia who made their living by hunting, fowling, fishing, beekeeping and so on, to make sure that “Aristotle should not remain ignorant of any animal born anywhere.”</p>