The Pre-Socratics – What is knowledge?
Part II of II
...If such is the case, then the means of changing the historical vector generated by human behavior lies within an understanding regarding the significance of the individual and the role the individual has to play regarding the very expansion of the whole of knowledge.
The Pre-Socratics may not have consciously understood the process of ‘creating’ knowledge’ but the Pre-Socratics did intuitively understand the significance of knowledge and as such the Pre-Socratics expanded the respect due a greater number of individuals, which in turn increased the potential development of the practical use of knowledge, which in turn exponentially expanded the potential development of new knowledge (the noun) itself.
We create knowledge, which in turn circumvents the state of permanent equilibrium for the whole, which in turn circumvents the state of eternal recurrence for the whole.
If new knowledge were never created, the whole/singularity/God would have no choice but to eternally watch and experience the sum total of knowledge reruns, since the whole/singularity/God is eternal in nature.
We create knowledge in many ways.
We ‘create’ new knowledge through art, music, literature, and perhaps as Hegel suggests through observation/science itself.
We create knowledge in the form of experiencing be it the forms of experiencing natural events occurring within the physical, which surrounds us, or in the form of actions we intentionally precipitate through choice, free will.
Knowledge is created but knowledge created with ‘no knowing’ capable of perceiving knowledge, be it perceiving by the whole/singularity/God or be it perceiving by various forms of multiplicity/individuality, is no knowledge at all for knowledge the noun exists only through knowing the verb, through action.
Passivity of knowing is knowledge but simultaneously passivity of knowledge is no different than ‘life’ without action.
Just as life is an action noun, knowledge is an action noun.
Knowing of knowledge is the action, which gives knowledge its life.
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The point: Multiplicity/individuality/the individual is the key element in the process of singularity’s/the whole’s/God’s ability to circumvent the boredom of eternal reruns.
Understanding such a concept, possessing such knowledge leads to the recognition regarding morality: the first of society’s obligation is to protect the right of the individual to travel life unimpeded and the second obligation is to travel life unimpeded is a critical issue to the system.
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