From Integral Experience to Scientific Knowledge
A Personalist Epistemology
From Integral Experience to Scientific Knowledge
A Personalist Epistemology
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Description
Drawing on Karol Wojtyla, Juan Manuel Burgos proposes a unified model in which knowledge begins with lived experience, develops into structured understanding, and culminates in critically validated scientific insight.
Two opposing epistemological views have been competing for supremacy for centuries: subjective positions with relativist tendencies and objective positions that tend to ignore human beings as subjects of knowledge. In this book, Burgos offers an original resolution to this long-standing problem.
Burgos suggests that knowledge begins through an experiential process that is activated when a person interacts with the world, filling the subject with meaningful experiences that integrate objectivity and subjectivity, intelligence and sensitivity. This is the main source from which everything we know comes. Only in a second stage does comprehension arise. A stable and much more objectified knowledge generated through a particular type of induction that produces notions and notional connections; comprehensive truth; patterns and laws; structured common knowledge, etc. Finally, in a third stage, comprehension can be critically validated and expanded, giving rise to an analogous and powerful knowledge with a unique capacity to grasp the truth, which has been decisive in our civilization: science.
This book carefully and thoroughly describes each of these processes and also offers some practical implications for education, sociology, and literary interpretation.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Ordinary Knowledge: Integral Experience
1. Experience As the Source of All Knowledge
2. The Structure of Integral Experience
3. Experiential Truth
Part II. Comprehension
4. Comprehensive Induction
5. Notions
6. The Return
7. Notional Connections and Structured Common Knowledge
8. Comprehensive Truth
9. Educational Notes
Part III. Science
10. Science As an Improvement of Ordinary Knowledge
11. The General Configuration of Science
12. The Epistemological Structure of Scientific Knowledge
13. Scientific Truth
14. Philosophy
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798216197669 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 14 black and white images |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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