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...