Uncertainty and the Ghost of Plato

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Uncertainty and the Ghost of Plato

Article to be written Author: Peter Giger http://longtailepistemology.com

Version 0.5 2008-03-02

http://freedomdefined.org/


Related Concepts A selection

Certainty

Nessecity

Truth

Knowlege

Essens

Objectivity

Universal

General

Feminism

Uncertainty

Relativism

Pragmatism

Nihilism

Subjectivity

Particualar

Specific

Local


History Thinkers who have thought about certainty

Parmenides

Wittgenstein

Protagoras

William James

Plato

Thomas Kuhn

Aristotle

Bruno Latour

Descartes

Donna Haraway

Francis Bacon

Jörgen Habermas

Nietzsche


Reasons For Expecting Certainty

Progress

Power

Developement

Control

Control

Ressentiment

Metaphysics


Web 2.0 The Promise or Threat of flattening Knowledge Processes

Participation

Non-Hierarchical

Transparency Image by Ben Sheldon at Flickr

Is participative, non-hierarchical, transparent processes an alternative to certain, necessary and true knowledge processes?


Democracy Relation to Certainty / Uncertainty

What's the zest of democratic processes?


Democracy Relation to Certainty / Uncertainty

If Democracy is not the object certain knowldge – then What is the direction of Certainty?


Boils down to The underlying question

Could a general recognition of uncertainty be a positive force?


Uncertainty and the Ghost of Plato

The End Article to be written Author: Peter Giger http://longtailepistemology.com

Version 0.5 2008-03-02

http://freedomdefined.org/


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