by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Practice As Pathic Knowledge
Phenomenological understanding is not primarily gnostic, cognitive, intellectual, technical but rather it is pathic, that means situated, relational, embodied, enactive. The term “pathic” derives from pathos, meaning “suffering, and also passion and disease or the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Practice As Tact
Practice as tact: Tact is a particular sensitivity and sensitiveness to situations, and how to behave in them, but for which we cannot find any knowledge from general principles. Discussions on the relation between theory and practice (the translation of theoretical...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Relational Knowledge
Relational knowledge: We discover what we know in our relations. Some of our knowledge resides intangibly in our relations with others. On the one hand, this relational dimension poses limitations upon the degree of reflection and distance one can assume in a...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Situational Confidence
Situational confidence is a quality of tact. The interesting thing about tact is precisely that it is insensitive to traditional theory-practice distinctions. At the same time we know intuitively that tact must always remain receptive to the experiential and situated...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Situational Knowledge
Situational Knowledge: We discover what we know from our world. Knowledge does not only inhere in the body but also in the things in the world. Knowledge exists in the world already, and it enables our embodied practices. An alien or disturbed environment may confuse...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Thoughtful Action
Thoughtful action is a quality of tact. Tact seems to be characterized by a moral intuitiveness. A tactful person somehow seems to sense what is the good or right thing to do. One may distinguish several types of tact. For example, pedagogical tact shares features...
