tekhne - scientia - praksis - gnosis - relatio
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tekhne - scientia - praksis - gnosis - relatio

 

         

tekhne

the itch to do

 

the practical knowledge we can use to do things - practical knowledge or skills for doing.

scientia

the itch to know

 

the propositions that we use to explain our world - propositional or scientific knowledge, konwledge for konwledge's sake.

praksis

the itch to be

 

the way we are as we live our lives through these changing times - experimental knowledge for being, to transform social conditions.

gnosis

the itch to see

 

the ability to understand symbolically with our hearts and our heads, i.e. insight - metaphoric knowledge - konwledge for seeing or intuiting, i.e. to think with one's heart and feel with one's head.

relatio

the itch to relate

  the way we learn to relate, communicate with through belonging, through love. It is the reason for engaging dialectic conversation to find ways to relate authentically to others in the diversity of the worlds in which they exist.