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Share Books on Epistemology

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Share your top books on epistemology that you think are foundational.

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Hmm, the Tao Te Ching would be a top contender for me.

If you read it with attention, it makes your mind go "huh, what is this?" at a foundational level, creating room for it to doubt its entire conception of reality.

It confronts the reader with their own momentary inability to grasp what the text is actually pointing at, which remains a mystery.

Sitting with that tends to create a stark contrast to your ordinary experience that makes you realize that there's something real there that you have yet to comprehend - beyond what the mind can do with it.

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i had the perfect book i think for this topic, but ill have to find it again, as it was like the entry to this, both religions and knowledge, investigating ~for me~ but i ended up never reading it passed the first few pages to begin w/ and i cnt recall what its called atm.

*p.s. our grammar, or the way we communicate is based on Homer, so Greek literature is in a way the introduction into whats become how we all talk, and subsequently how we form ideas around knowledge, or what we consider *it.

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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People can start in the Greek directly w/ Theaetetus [*tʰee-ay-tee-tus] (on Classic.MIT Website) yous can read it, cause its asking "What is knowledge", Alas i wanna look for this book I was talking about in the meanwhile.

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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I appreciate you guys for sharing.

This thread will be helpful for most people.

Even though there are book recommendations elsewhere, it would be best if we had more suggestions in this forum, from beginner to advanced.

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22 minutes ago, Nemra said:

I appreciate you guys for sharing.

 

7 hours ago, kavaris said:

People can start in the Greek directly w/ Theaetetus [*tʰee-ay-tee-tus] (on Classic.MIT Website)

Okay i got it now, it was three books that i put aside~someone originally recommended me, that i had listed in Epistemology and similar sections, but that i thought were more appropriate for something like this occasion where ppl are tlkin' about this stuff specifically... The three book are   Vernant's Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, Marcel Detienne's The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece and Maria Mili's Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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I learned a specific spirituality. As a bonus I understand epistemology. I think it's best. Then it's not so abstract. It makes sense of what you are learning.  For example I learned there is relative epistemology and absolute epistemology. Relative is understanding the world and absolute is understanding God. In the relative world, to give is to lose. In God's realm, to give is to receive.

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16 minutes ago, gettoefl said:

I learned a specific spirituality. As a bonus I understand epistemology. I think it's best. Then it's not so abstract. It makes sense of what you are learning.  For example I learned there is relative epistemology and absolute epistemology. Relative is understanding the world and absolute is understanding God. In the relative world, to give is to lose. In God's realm, to give is...

Thats a nice way to put it; Thats prolly what i was thinking too, and you were able to find the words for it.

*p.s. there's of course the term "gnosis-", but thats associated w/ more than what we want in this context i believe, atleast in modern times its taking on new meanings that are fluid and hard to pinpoint, like more on the *mystery side of things. or so i feel.

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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50 minutes ago, kavaris said:

1. Vernant's Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, 2. Marcel Detienne's The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece 3. Maria Mili's Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly

For anyone that wants to read these books now, i found the second one here, The Master's of truth., on Archive dot org

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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