Zusammenfassung der Ressource
There are only two ways in which humankind
can produce knowledge: through p.
obsv. or active expmnt.
- Knowledge map of the world -
Ground base knowledge -
Foundation
- - Instinctive knowledge
- A priori knowledge
- Not active experiment or
passive observation
- Natural sciences
- WOK - imagination
- Not active experiment or passive
observation
- To create and think of hypothesis leading
to an experiment
- Producing knowledge using active
experiment and passive - large part of science
- Discovery of the vaccination - Edward Jenner
- Issue with knowledge claim
- Religious knolwedge
- Revelation/ Experiential
- Not active experiment
or passive observation
- Speaking to the divine, learning from the
divine
- Buddhism: revelation as an enlightenment gained
through discipline and meditation - Buddha received an
illumination that enabled him to become the supreme
teacher for all his followers.
- Final stage of buddhism
(achieving enlightment) is a form
of revelation
- Faith/ Intuition
- Practicing religion - active
experiment + pasive observation
- Meditation - trying to achieve the enlightened state of
mind, control over your mind
- Deals with the issue whether knowledge is
discovered or produced
- Defining active experiment + passive obesrvation