|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:43 pm
|
|
|
|
Phronesis: Addressed in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics- Phronesis is practical knowledge- the knowledge that in daily life keeps a person from licking a light socket.
Episteme: The works of Plato offer a formula for Episteme, that roughly translates as an opinion justified by an argument- an example would be the knowledge that The Wica is an Initiatory, Ditheistic Fertility Witchcult that worships ~insert rest of info dump here~. We know this because we have a working knowledge justified by an argument.
Gnosis: Spiritual Knowledge- this is direct revelation-style spiritual Truth. What Paul describes in his Epistles on the road to Damascus (true or not) is an example of Gnosis. A dramatic example, but an example.
Doxa: Common belief or popular opinion. The earth will continue to rotate on it's axis and thus the sun will be seen rising in the east and setting in the west just like yesterday. Yeshua was YHVH incarnate.
As we can see, we have four kinds of knowledge here. Objective, Common, Spiritual and Reasoned. Some of these overlap. Some do not.
As a result, when we talk about knowledge, philosophically, we have to be aware of what kind of knowledge we are addressing- and the means by which our knowledge may be flawed.
So lets play a game.
Look at the different kinds of knowledge and explain what parts of your path are reflected in this.
Edit: Celeblin adds:
Theoria is theoretical knowledge and poiesis is creational knowledge, as in making things, specifically beautiful things
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:21 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|