Some readers might access this blog in ways that don’t display the main page and might not be aware that I have a variety of books, nonfiction and fiction, available for free download. I’m planning to put this message up every month or sometimes every 2 months or so until I can determine if it’s worthwhile. The book for this month is my book about human knowledge, Four Kinds of Knowledge: Revealed Knowledge, Speculative Knowledge, Scientific Empirical Knowledge, Practical Empirical Knowledge.
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Highlighted Book for December, 2012
Four Kinds of Knowledge: Revealed Knowledge, Speculative Knowledge, Scientific Empirical Knowledge, Practical Empirical Knowledge
This book is a discussion of human knowledge and a denial of the ‘problem’ of human knowledge usually studied under the name of ‘epistemology’, a branch of philosophy forbidden to those who accept the claim of St. Thomas Aquinas that things are true. We know what we know by actively perceiving what lies around us and what is happening in our own bodies and we know truly when we know in such a way as to respond properly to the truth that is in the world. This way of putting it points to the similar views of the pragmatists who would be nearly Thomists in my updated sense, existentialist and relationalist as well as trusting reality, if only they were willing to admit our knowledge is local knowledge of a world, indeed, of a Creation.
In any case, I claim that human knowledge of all being is of two kinds though we can best see in terms of the four kinds in the full title of the book: revealed knowledge, speculative knowledge, scientific empirical knowledge, practical empirical knowledge. The two kinds of knowledge beneath this framework are knowledge of God in His necessary being and knowledge of God in His freely chosen role as Creator of a specific Creation.
For reasons not clear to me, this seems to be the most popular of my books, with a lot of downloads into the Philippines. So far as I can tell, few from that country read my weblog. It’s only this book which is popular there, popular by my current standards.