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Neo-Hermetic Epistemiology: An Emotive-Subjectivist Theory of Knowledge. |
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by Alternative Aries
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16 Sep 2006
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Neo-Hermetic Epistemiology is a theory of Knowledge counterposed to neoliberal rationalism. It is a philosophical and spiritual manifestation that emerges in context of the neo-pagan bloc of the anti-globalisation movement. |
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As a theory of knowledge it denies purely empireo-rationalist and logical positivist approaches, although it does not deny their utility en-toto. It defines ‘’knowledge’’ as the body of gathered and classified information that is archived for the purpose of latter analysis.
‘’Knowledge’’ is access to memory. Memory exists in the human brain, the body of litterary narratives and databases. Neo-hermetic epistemiology posits an instrumentalist view. The empireo-rationalist method is a tool, a means to an end and not an end in itself. Humans can never achieve (and will never achieve) absolute knowledge of ‘’truth’’. There is one ultimate total reality and an ultimate total truth; but because humans are only capable of accumulating limited information of and about it, there will always be different interpretations of the same reality from different perspectives. This does not mean that humans should abandon enquiry, but only that they should accept that none will never know it all.
Expression derived from the ‘’instinctively sensed’’ is as valuable as knowledge derived from the ‘’empireo-rationally discovered’’. Humans are not and will never be capable of ‘’objectivity’’ because they can never physically disconnect their emotive and instinctive senses. The chimera of ‘’pure logic’’ that positivists aspire to is impossible unless human cease to be human. In so far as logical positivism and atheistic materialism promote the suppression of the instinctive and the emotive they become forms of anti-humanism. Rationalistic approaches are useful as long as they serve as a means to expose the falsity of bureaucratically organised religion (Catholicism, Mormonism, The Christian Coalition ad nauseam); but it becomes anti-Humanist when it seeks to deny and suppress the spiritual (as oppossed to the religious), as the instinctive, aesthetic, and emotive expression of Humanity. |
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