Practical, Actionable, and Intrinsic Knowledge

Philosophy and Wisdom

• "Knowledge" is used differently based on context.
• Someone could understand how something works.
• Someone could also perform specific tasks and navigate social situations.
• One could also know a lot or a little about science, the world, or people.
• These uses can be narrowed to 3 ideas: knowing how to do something, knowing how to act, and knowing itself
• Knowing how to do something relates to classic thought, which is called poetry in Greek and "doing" in Latin.
• Examples include planning and making a building, fixing pipes, creating maps, and operating cameras.
• Focus lies in doing.
• Doing directs and relies on it.
• Learning to ride a bike is linked to using it for fun or travel.
• Someone learning to do something gains knowledge and learns to design things or stay balanced.
• The knowledge is tied to the doing; knowing how to do something doesn't add much.
• Knowing how to ride a horse is limited to that action, with news outside of the activity staying on the periphery.
• As actual knowledge, it's less important than the other 2 types, with focus lying on the doing over the knowing/knowledge.
• Proper behavior relates to Greek praxis and Latin agere.
• This is seen in ethics and moral expression and politics (active participation in society for the common good).
• Knowledge here dictates exclusive ways of acting and focuses on doing, with moral and political authorities referring to behavior and lacking outside knowledge.
• Being able to behave doesn't equate to following the knowledge, with behaving well also closely tied to knowing each other.
• The saying "whoever doesn't live how they understand, ends up understanding how they live," is often repeated.
• Focus lies on the doing, despite it including insight into human nature.
• Practical knowledge isn't the finest kind of knowledge.
• The purest concept of knowledge is seen in expressions, such as "You have no idea what this person knows".
• "Knowledge" can be replaced with knowing properly.
• It commonly applies to understanding the realities of something, instead of doing and acting.
• It includes knowing if something is or exists (the reality of things).
• This is the strictest and deepest definition or excellent knowledge that isn't solved by doing/acting.
• People use this to some degree, with adults wanting to understand people and the existence of their world.
• Exercise is the noblest function of intelligence based on philosophy.
• Some people better develop ways of consciously, critically, and systematically knowing, leading to experience in occupation.
• Philosophers aspire to know what people and things are to the fullest extent possible.
• Aristotle called this first philosophy, now called metaphysics.
• It focuses on existence as existence, an abstract technical expression of reality.
• Metaphysics is the most excellent philosophy since it attempts to clarify every part of the universe, from corporeal to incorporeal things.
• All branches of philosophy seek to uncover the realness of the subjects or themes.
• Philosophical knowledge involves the recently mentioned definitions, relating most to knowledge of realities from God to people.
• It's important to understand the meaning of knowing, since modern civilization doesn't encourage understanding since lives are spent manipulating objects and making them work.
• Kids in wealthy countries use electricity without an understanding of its source, requiring the press of a button.
• Young people use new consoles, phones, computers almost exclusively to make them function without understanding the foundations.
• Many manage their wealth without understanding banking or stocks, which isn't inherently bad.
• Instruments are meant to be analyzed and used for a specific purpose.
• Someone wouldn't spend hours thinking of the meaning before using a screwdriver.
• Whether rudimentary like tools or complex like in the economy, they're all instruments.
• A construction worker uses a drill for which works best, instead of the technical reasons.
• Only in rare cases will a person be mesmerized by the functions of everyday tasks.
• Danger rises when people consider said understanding absolute and apply it to everything.
• Someone might know how to seduce or market, while being unethical.
• People aren't made to be manipulated, and using them as instruments disrespects their dignity and reduces them to objects.
• The superiority of people requires knowledge and love.
• People should think and consider.
• Because humans are rational, they understand what things ask for.
• Fully human people learn to experience knowledge in proportion to merit.
• To grow that ability of thinking, one must swim against the current in the contemporary culture.
• Contemporary culture is pushed by efficiency that changes all knowledge and diminishes philosophy.
• Urgency lies in philosophical knowledge and characteristics.
• Almost at the start of Metaphysics, Aristotle said people seek knowledge.
• This references knowledge not forced by satisfaction of other needs pursued for its own sake.
• Ancient Greeks call this activity "theoria," and believed that theorizing was the most important operation.
• Modern people qualify improvements or people as theoretical.
• People often ask what the use is of certain fields in high school or college.
• To understand philosophy, Cicerón's anecdote transmits how Pythagoras said that humans enter the cosmic order through birth in a festivity for God.
• In this festival, some are focused on fun, some sell goods, and philosophers understand the meaning of the festivity and reference to God.
• Philosophy is greatly connected to the divine order.
• Aristotle says that wisdom is the highest form of knowledge and relates to the divine.
• True philosophers take great part in celebration.
• Contrary to what existentialists or nihilists claim, philosophy is joyful and aids the understanding of the vast universe.
• It isn't tedious or dramatic, and one doesn't have to be bored or existentially struggling to do philosophy.
• Understanding reality and the elements is satisfying like celebration.
• Pythagorus said that some go for fun and don't enjoy the party, while some seek business and don't enjoy the festivity.
• Only people that consider end up understanding the foundations, the route to understand the passing through the world.
• "Theorein," from the same Greek root for "to see", references the practice of knowing for the sake of enjoying knowledge without other pretenses.
• "Theorein" in Latin and Christian context equals contemplation, and it's about seeing reality without other desire than to bathe in it.
• Aristotle said that philosophy is free since not subordinate to other objectives and useless in that it doesn't produce benefits, unlike instruments/tools made for external goal.
• Philosophical knowledge, like friendship, poetry, or God, has worth much higher than the instrumental since worth lies in knowledge without further justification.
• Understanding the beginning of the knowledge of being or reality is pursued by itself, and it doesn't serve another purpose.

Features of Philosophy

• The desire to know something from its essence, and not of an interest or opinion.
• Aristotle said that to obtain this one's desire should be driven by contemplation.
• The unique goal is genuine happiness, as to do otherwise will be for specific purposes rather than universal truths.
• The goal of philosophy is not about pure intention but about pursuing ideologies which are impossible given that the philosopher has to understand it completely.
• Realizing the truth to avoid being mislead by external factors to know the good or the bad to know how to proceed in the path to philosophy.
• Aristotle stated the obvious, with truth and fundamental things affirming everything.
• Some modern philosophers begin with the "no," modeling from structure and by hope substituted by doubt, as in Descartes, and in Hegel by disturbance.
• The classic philosophy goes to structure and says thank you to the reality that surrounds the person, and this is why the recognition is in acceptance and joy.
• Admiration consists accepting it will be something never fully understood.
• Philosophical research shows an unexpected dose of ignorance with the greatness of the ordinary.
• Having truth and knowledge also allows for intensity of secrets, given its understanding of the origin and everything to follow.
• Given reality and a subject of interest, philosophers always want to know every aspect about anything.
• Because of the above, the happiness that philosophers get will always be more full than just reaching the aim of something due to one's personality recognizing humility.
• Philosophers do not believe to know things completely but are aspirants that are simply candidates of the truth.
• Philosophers by their nature of constantly questioning want to know the truth and knowledge.
• Love allows for a perspective beyond intelligence, and in turn allows for the impact to reach someone's persona by using existence and truths.
• These above are the essence and why it is important.
• Philosophizing is not an ethic.
• The role of will, instead, should avoid external prejudices, because it does not allow for an understanding of anything.
• It should instead focus on understanding the other people and not just the theory of why or what is happening.
• Avoiding external stimuli causes confusion; these factors are personal for which the result is final.
• Love is the special source of power.
• Philosopher Cardona suggests in order to go back to origin of things one must go back to the original love and truth.
• Also people forget the essence due to the outside world.