Epistemology: Achieving Universal Knowledge
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Epistemology
Your project needs, as a starting point, a real, universal, and objective knowledge (Episteme), which underpins universal ethical concepts. Humans can achieve universal knowledge, valid, stable, and objective (Episteme), to follow a sound basis for knowing this knowledge ethically in its practical, individual, and socio-political aspects, and for the world. For him, true knowledge should inform the stable and permanent, free of change. And this can only be offered by Reason, using a rigorous and systematic method to search within oneself. Developing such concepts would only be possible if one accepted the existence of objective realities that correspond to these concepts, and to give them the characteristics of stability, universality, etc. Realities which he called ideas and considered different and more important than physical reality. This involves two levels of reality: the physical and the ideal (Dualism). The report sensations of the physical world. Knowledge is unreliable for real knowledge (science or Episteme). Reason itself leads to true knowledge, to be able to know the ideas, objects, stable, permanent, etc., which will serve to build.
Learning Universal Concepts
Learn concepts of the universal, eternal, immutable, objective, etc., not wrong. Recognized in the know of Reason, in varying degrees Episteme:
- Dianoia: Discursive reason, aimed at the mathematical world, which was, according to Plato, a preparatory tool for
- Noesis: Whose proper object were the ideas, freed the people from ignorance and brought them to the knowledge of good through philosophical knowledge.
Reasons that Support the Possibility of Knowledge
a. The Dialectic:
Meeting the World of Ideas was a proper activity of human reason, it can rise from the sensible to the ideal knowledge in an ongoing and difficult process of thought, for the soul, trapped in the body, tends to stay in the sensible. This process is known as dialectic epistemology, the supreme method of knowledge by which the wise, helped by mathematical knowledge, passes from one idea to another until reaching the Supreme Idea that makes it intelligible to others. For her, theoretical and practical knowledge are related:
- On the theoretical knowledge of the structure and order of reality.
- For practical knowledge, the rules of moral and political conduct.
Not every human is capable of reaching the Dialectic, and it also requires lasting and permanent education.