by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Actional Knowledge
Actional Knowledge: We discover “what we know” in “what we can do”. Not all “knowledge” that we “use” in our actions can necessarily be translated back into propositions or theories. In fact, Wittgenstein argues that as we give accounts of what we do and how we act,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Embodied Knowledge
Embodied Knowledge: We discover what we know in our embodied being. There has been increased attention given to the phenomenon of embodiment in human action. From a phenomenological point of view it can even be argued that the whole body itself is pathic. Thus “the...
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 | 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 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...
