GENERAL AND PRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
●□• By GENERAL EPISTEMOLOGY , I mean The Existential Journey of the human Mind through 6 stages labeled as :
*** 1- THE SENSES perceptions
*** 2- THE INTELLECT (words, images, concepts)
*** 3- THE PSYCHE (inchoate 4)
THE TRANSITION FROM 3 TO 4 IS THE QUANTUM LEAP INTO THE TIMELESS KNOWLEDGE/EPISTÊMÊ.
FROM 1 TO 3, LEARNING ADVANCED BY MORE OR LESS SOPHISTICATED IMITATIONS HAPPENING IN SPACE-TIME-ENERGY-MATTER : IT’S CALLED, IN TWO WORDS, RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS, OR IN ONE WORD, TRAINING.
TO MOVE FROM 3 TO 4, THE GLORIOUS QUANTUM LEAP, SOMETHING FROM WITHIN HAS BEEN STIRRED, GIVEN GRACIOUSLY WITHOUT OBVIOUS TRIGGER OR WITH IDENTIFIABLE TRIGGERS (humans, animals, nature, etc.). The details about the move from 3 to 4 belong to the kingdom of the Philosophers and of the Masters of meditation.
THAT SOMETHING CAN BE CALLED RIGPA : REAL INNER GROUNDED TIMELESS PURE AWARENESS.
*** 4- THE SOUL : The Mind rooted in the Timeless Form of Beauty, Domain of the 9 Muses. The Muses are the daughters of the Heavenly Father and of Mnemosyne (Memory). The 9 Muses are : Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Erato, Urania, Terpsichore, Thalia, Melpomene, Polyhymnia. Their Domain includes Universal History, the Mathematical Forms but also THE EXISTING Arts, Music, Poetry, Literature, Justice, Sciences, etc.
*** 5- THE inner COSMOS : The Mind anchored in the Timeless Form of Goodness. It’s THE PLAYFUL EXPLORATION at the source of discoveries, creativity, inventivity and understanding of THE TRIUNE REALITY OF EPISTEMOLOGY : THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE, HEURISTICS, HERMENEUTICS.
* The theory of knowledge (theôria epistêmê) is THE APPERCEPTION (full insight), is THE REMEMBRANCE (anamnesis : removal of the amnesia, the forgetfulness), is THE DIRECT CONTEMPLATION (theôria) OF *THE TIMELESS FORMS* (Eidos/Ideas) of Beauty, Goodness, Truth (Kallos, Kagathos, Aleitheia) and their natural, lawful corresponding *TIME SHAPES* (Mimesis Plastikon) in the Space-Time-Energy-Matter (STEM/Chronos) DIMENSION..
* Heuristics : the inner sovereign discovery, awareness of the mind “operations”, insights, eurêka moments, traps, circular deadlocks defining the path to the resolution of a given problem, a given phenomenon, a given situation. It is also the provisional systematization for a general pattern of problem solving in a given circumstance or for a given phenomenon. For example, the Ptolemaic, Copernican, Keplerian solutions for the description of the planetary orbits within the Solar System are different heuristic stages in the resolution of the given natural enigma.
* Hermeneutics : the sovereign creation of meanings related to a fulfilled human life.
*** 6- THE SELF : The Mind Being in The Timeless Form of Truth. For communication purposes, Truth is also labeled as RIGPA : Real Inner Grounded Timeless Pure Awareness.
Many names have been given to the group formed by the stages 1 to 3 (Senses : Intellect : Psyche). Here are some : Time, Chronos, Becoming, Lower Trigram, Maya, Phenomenal Dimension, Doxa, Phenomenaia.
Same for the group formed by the stages 4 to 6 (Soul : inner Cosmos : Self). Here are some : Timelessness, Tempus, Being, Upper Trigram, Vidya, Noumenal Reality, Epistêmê, Ontos.
As the general epistemology has a triune structure (theory of knowledge, heuristics, hermeneutics), the resonance of The Time Dimension with The Timelessness Reality through the epistemological Overture (the Existential Journey of the human Mind classically defined by 6 stages) is also triune in structure.
Here are three statements expressing the same reality :
■ Tempus : Kairos : Chronos
● 道 ：势 ：历 史 (Dao : Shi : Li Shi/Dao4 : Shi4 : Li4 Shi3)
◇ Being : epistemological Overture : Becoming
I wish to offer another expression for the reality of the existential resonance. First the words in Koine Greek as written 2000 years ago but transliterated with the English alphabet here :
☆ Archê Logos : Logos Pros Zoe : Logos Hoi Zoe
Everyone will recognize the text with the English translation below :
☆ At the beginning is the Verb : the Verb is with God : the Verb is God.
Timeless Source : The epistemological Journey : in God’s Image within Time
Being : epistemological Overture : Becoming
●□• By PRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY, I mean PEERS :
Politics
Ethics & Rhetorics
Economics
international Relations
Sciences, technology & Arts
To explore more this vast topic called epistemology :
The axio-epistemo-political triangle & Universal History