Wednesday 31 October 2007

Burrell & Morgan

Looking into the ontological epistemological debate

Most basic ontological question;

is reality out there? or is it a product of one's mind?
a product of individual consciousness.

is reality of an 'objective' nature?

epistomological

is knowledge hard or soft (a more subjective, spiritual or even transcendental kind)
the extreme positions ask whether knowledge can be acquired (hard) or whether it is something which has to personaly experienced.

human nature

is the human 'the master rather than the marionette'?
do humans respond to what is out there in a mehanistic or deterministic fashion, or do they create? do they have 'free will'?

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