As I have argued in my book Moral, Believing Animals, all human beings are believers, not
knowers who know with certitude.
In the Thomistic doctrine, this applied to all knowers except the Supreme Knower: «It was indeed the Thomistic doctrine that in knowledge, apart from God, it is
the knower who is really related to the known, not the known to the knower....
A driving force in this tradition has been the philosophical «turn to the subject,» a shift of focus from the thing known to
the knower who knows it.
Palmer always uses the term «objective» to describe the antagonistic posture of the isolated, active
knower who seeks, for purposes of manipulation and control, to grasp, through the scientific method, the passive objects of the world in such a way that the knowledge that results «will reflect the nature of the objects in question rather than the knower's whims.»
Not exact matches
i hope one day the entire earth will have only one faith and that will be «There is no one worthy of worship except One
who is unseen and
knower of everything and Muhammad, Jesus, Moses Abraham are all prophets of God»...
«And if thou (Muhammad) ask them:
Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: The Mighty, the
Knower created them» (Surah XLIII, 9).
Indeed, it is You
who is
Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those
who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
Fueled by this suspicion, it questions the legitimacy of the powerful as
knowers and their right to decide
who is and is not «one of them.»
To begin with, an epistemology of the cross can not be used by
knowers whose claims to objectivity are predicated on domination, for it harbors a deep suspicion of power - based knowledge claims and those
who make them.
Little significance has been attached to questions like, «
Who qualifies as a «knower,» and who doesn't, and why?&raq
Who qualifies as a «
knower,» and
who doesn't, and why?&raq
who doesn't, and why?»
Then we turn to the All -
knower,
who knows our bad, but knows this good in us also, and
who is just.
Can we not define the perfect
knower as the one
who can know any positive state?
Allah it is
Who is the Hearer, the
Knower.
Who appointed you the
knower of all things?
And what is hilarious, is that in the case of all those gods, be they current religions, cults or dead pantheons, they all had, in their time, believers
who fervently believed that THAY were the only
knowers of the truth, just as you are now.
Imagine what giving feedback is like for people
who make meaning as socializing
knowers.
Other naive not -
knowers abotuthe science will see this and will their doubts confirmed that «science» is untreuctworthy and misrepresetns itself here and there and everywhere, and that those
who BELIEVE in it are dumb twits
who can not be trusted either or listened to.
«Questions about the integrity and legitimacy of Indigenous ways of knowing, and being, have more to do with
who has the power to be a
knower than the validity of non-western knowledges.»