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tekhne
- scientia - praksis - gnosis - relatio |
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tekhne |
the
itch to do |
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the practical knowledge we can use to
do things - practical knowledge or skills for doing. |
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scientia |
the
itch to know |
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the propositions that we use to
explain our world - propositional or scientific knowledge,
konwledge for konwledge's sake. |
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praksis |
the itch to be |
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the way we are as we live our lives
through these changing times - experimental knowledge for being,
to transform social conditions. |
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gnosis |
the itch to see |
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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. |
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relatio |
the itch to relate |
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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. |
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