Some have spent years studying Kant and his Categorical Framework for knowledge, first published in 1781. I am absolutely fascinated by the implications of Kant’s maddeningly simple chart. Can it be a framework for all knowledge? Can we somehow bring this structure into our modern, 21st century understanding of how we think about knowledge itself? I think we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wittgenstein’
21st Century Kant: Learning to Frame Knowledge Anew (w/ help from Aristotle & Wittgenstein)
Posted in complexity, critical thinking, tagged artistotle, convergence, framework, Kant, knowledge, paradigm, philosophy, Wittgenstein on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Words That Matter: Wittgenstein and Senge on the Power of Language in Critical Thinking
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, culture, language, tagged bohm, change, collaboration, communication, education, innovation, knowledge, kuhn, language, learning, linkedin, paradigm, Senge, Wittgenstein on August 16, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Language, like the culture it derives from, plays a subtle but powerful role in how we interact with others. Yet we are so completely immersed in it, we scarcely give it a second thought. Early in the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein brought focus to the critical importance of language in the context of knowledge, philosophy, [...]
Philosophy and the Search for Ideas: Foundations of Critical Thinking
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, paradigm, tagged abstraction, Aristotle, Bacon, context, critical, Hume, Kant, linkedin, ontology, philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras, science, series, Socrates, thinking, Wittgenstein on May 21, 2011 | 16 Comments »
As historians are quick to point out, the parallels between modern times and the classical world – including not only Greece, but also Rome – are plentiful. No new thinking here. In profound ways, our modern society, laws, forms of government and language are embedded in the classic traditions. But there’s more to the story [...]

