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Cognition as a conquest and a surrender

Branimir Lukšić

Abstract

The author points out that Western philosophical thought, whether
religious or secular, materialistic or idealistic, has been based predominantly on the conception of human cognition as a mastery, domination of the known object by the knower. It has been marked by an aggressive, possessory and confrontational attitude towards nature and society, whose dire consequences are apparent in the modern world.
The author analyses the other kind of cognition which he calls the
transrational (not irrational or prerational) and unitive; he describes
it phenomenologically, psychologically and draws attention to its
pitfalls. He especially analyses the difficulties of communicating such
a unitive kind of cognition. Concluding that both kinds of cognition
are valid, each within its own area, and mutually complementary the
points out the advantages of the unitive cognition in redrussing the
present epistemological imbalance.

Keywords

cognition; western thought

Hrčak ID:

85591

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/85591

Publication date:

15.12.1989.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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