| Abstrakt: |
The chapter presents the author's ontological perspective on knowledge and consciousness. It is difficult to highlight the importance of our bodies because, when they function well, we pass through them in use. The world in which we live is structured in relation to an organism for whom sight is an essential bond to matter. In relation to this, the only consciousness that we know about is one in which sight is an essential aspect. One way of indicating the significance of the sense organs to our bond to the world is to imagine what the world would be like if we did not have sight. Consequently, the author's ontological perspective on knowledge and consciousness regards sense organs not only as revealing the world but also as differentiating matter into a world. Clarifying this views, this chapter shows that our consciousness of the world is first and foremost our bond with the world, the author thus place the human body in the center of the universe. To reinsert the human body within the center of things now seems to be a return to a Ptolemaic anthropomorphic view of the world. With this, the author find it necessary to reexamine some of the broad features of our conception of ourselves as minds capable of pure knowledge. The author begun by examining the origins of the so-called pure knowledge. |
