Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Lesson Plan

Kant claims that human beings are drawn naturally to metaphysical thinking. Why do you think philosophy holds such an attraction for people?

This question may strike some students as odd (especially if they had never previously read a work of philosophy!), and still others may vociferously deny that the works of others by Kant and others could ever be interesting to a large majority of people. However, the teacher would do well here to recall the Thought Question from the first day about the nature of philosophy: philosophy does not consist merely of lengthy, abstruse treatises exchanged by pale-skinned, hunchbacked old men in recondite corners of university libraries,...