How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?

As a precondition of philosophical dialogue among different cultures, this essay forwards a series of questions regarding the epistemological presuppositions of the current dominant knowledge culture, which is characterized by a capitalistic, technological, and colonial ethos. By stating its presupp...

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Main Author:	Fornet-Betancourt, Raúl
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2024
Subjects:	epistemological plurality epistemological violence knowledge cultures knowledge consent
Online Access:	https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss1/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1066/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.1_202_20Article_20__20Betancourt.pdf
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.budhi-10662024-11-22T12:29:39Z How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know? Fornet-Betancourt, Raúl As a precondition of philosophical dialogue among different cultures, this essay forwards a series of questions regarding the epistemological presuppositions of the current dominant knowledge culture, which is characterized by a capitalistic, technological, and colonial ethos. By stating its presuppositions, situating these in the historical context of its development, and drawing their consequences, the essay opens up the possibility of overcoming this dominant ethos of knowledge through the recuperation of epistemological plurality by way of exchanges among a multiplicity of knowledge cultures. The essay proposes that it is philosophy’s task today to resist the dehumanization of knowledge by asking what we should know, how, with whom, and for what purpose we want to know what we should know. 2024-11-24T11:34:59Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss1/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1066/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.1_202_20Article_20__20Betancourt.pdf Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture Archīum Ateneo epistemological plurality epistemological violence knowledge cultures knowledge consent
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description	As a precondition of philosophical dialogue among different cultures, this essay forwards a series of questions regarding the epistemological presuppositions of the current dominant knowledge culture, which is characterized by a capitalistic, technological, and colonial ethos. By stating its presuppositions, situating these in the historical context of its development, and drawing their consequences, the essay opens up the possibility of overcoming this dominant ethos of knowledge through the recuperation of epistemological plurality by way of exchanges among a multiplicity of knowledge cultures. The essay proposes that it is philosophy’s task today to resist the dehumanization of knowledge by asking what we should know, how, with whom, and for what purpose we want to know what we should know.
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title	How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?
title_short	How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?
title_full	How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?
title_fullStr	How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?
title_full_unstemmed	How are We to Think About the Knowledge that We Should Know?
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publisher	Archīum Ateneo
publishDate	2024
url	https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss1/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1066/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.1_202_20Article_20__20Betancourt.pdf
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