View Article  Before the Pre-Socratics – Q2: W hat is knowledge? Part II of II

Before the Pre-Socratics – Q2: W hat is knowledge?

 

Part II of II

 

...As such, this work establishes a new model, a new metaphysical perception of reality, which combines both the Cartesian model ‘and’ the non-Cartesian model into a single model where the non-Cartesian System is ‘powered’ by a Cartesian system which finds itself located within, finds itself to be an element of the non-Cartesian system.

 

With the fusion of the two, one can understand that ‘what is’ is the summation of the Whole but because the Whole is void a universal fabric of time and space ‘what is’ can become ‘what could be’ without ever losing its characteristic of being ‘what is’. 

 

Again the examination of the topic becomes too complex to address on one page but the details of such dialectics can be found in Volume II of the work: The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception (see library at www.panentheism.com).

 

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The point: Knowledge is a noun versus being a verb.

 

Knowledge does not belong to the outdated scientific principles of physics, which characterized the nature matter and energy:

 

Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

 

As we have discovered, both statements are incorrect and have now become the conservation of matter and energy:

 

            The sum total of matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed.

 

This work, this new model of reality, clearly demonstrates that the philosophical principle:

            Knowledge cannot be created or destroyed.

 

is as invalid as were the two previously perceived inviolate principles of physics.

 

The new metaphysical model clearly demonstrates that it is more logical to argue knowledge ‘can’ be created than it is to argue that knowledge ‘cannot’ be created.

 

The new metaphysical model accomplishes something philosophy has not accomplished until now and that is to clearly demonstrates why it is knowledge is ‘something’ which cannot be destroyed while simultaneously being ‘something’ which can be created without interfering with the concept of ‘what is’. (See The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception: Tractate 6: The Error of Kant: Resolving the Problem of Universal Ethics. www.panentheism.com)

 

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View Article  Before the Pre-Socratics – Q2: What is knowledge? Part I of II

Before the Pre-Socratics – Q2: W hat is knowledge?

 

 

Part I of II

 

This isn’t to say that there weren’t advances in knowledge.

 

It was that these advances were the sole domain of the kings and priests of the time.

 

These cultures relied exclusively on custom, priestly revelation, and divine authority for their social cohesion.

 

As such, all knowledge was used to maintain the prevailing view.

 

For example, Egyptian geometry was used to build the great pyramids, while Babylonian astronomy and mathematics were used - exclusively by the priests - to make “magical” predictions.

 

In essence, the prevailing outlook of both the Egyptian and Babylonian empires was that the world was explainable in strictly mythical terms.

 

The gods had created the world, and were responsible for all aspects of it. 

 

S: The question becomes: What is knowledge.

 

Knowledge is the awareness of ‘what is’ with the understanding that ‘what is’ is.

 

Such a statement both is and isn’t circular in nature.

 

Within either a Cartesian model of reality or a non-Cartesian model of reality such a statement is circular in nature and thus nonsensical in understanding reality itself.

 

This work, however, is not an examination of reality in light of either a Cartesian model of reality or a non-Cartesian model of reality.

 

This work fuses the two, the Cartesian model with the non-Cartesian model.

 

To be continued: Part II of II: As such, this work establishes a new model, a new metaphysical perception of reality, which combines both...