We have eternally been interested in the metaphysics of Man’s acquisition of knowledge (i.e., Epistemology). Followers of this blogspace, presumabl are well aware of our support for the empirical theory of knowledge and have copiously cited our classic English mentor, John Locke, an “empiricist,” who declared that Man is born with a “tabula rasa,” a blank slate, and that his knowledge is garnered from his empirical experience; as upposed to innate inspiration (the “rationalist theory”) We have adamantly persisted in full support of this theory, also shared by the plethora of empirical philosophers, including Bacon, Voltaire, Hume, Newton and Descartes).
Long after the promulgation and philosophical acceptance of such enlightened theory of knowledge, viz., based on human experience (as contrasted with intuitive, innate inspiration), Sigmund Freud and other celebrated thinkers entertained the more contemporary natural phenomenon of subjectively nuanced personal perception; the latter, relatively influenced by matters, such as childhood upbringing, adolescence, and nuanced life experience. Said clinical development made possible an available doorway to the understanding of the ubiquitous nature of human perceptions of reality, and, where relevant, the clinical understanding of Man’s neurosis and state of mental health.
The advancement in understanding of the phenomenon of nuanced human perception has importantly served to provide a vital tool in the understanding of human behavior, and, where relevant, relief from mental disturbance. Such enlightened awareness has also ostensibly provided the foundational raw materials for novels, plays, and other aesthetic statements of the human condition and is a utilitarian, vital asset in understanding and acceptance of divergent points of view. In many instances, the revelation of purely objective reality has the salutary potential to produce the accommodation of differences,
The existence of the phenomenon of subjective perception, it should be noted, does not conflict with the empirical (Locke’s) theory of knowledge, but does add a subjective footnote to its perceptive understanding, founded upon (personal) past experience.
Man’s acquisition of knowledge through empirical experience remains a universal phenomenon, analogously viewed through a camera lens but ubiquitously subject to the impactful dynamics of personalized perception. and resultant interpretation.
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