Supporting Material

    Committed Knowledge: The Modern Past

The Buddha on Enlightenment
Al-Ghazzali on the Sources of Knowledge
9/11 at Eternal Grace School
John Locke on Human Understanding
Ibn Tufayl on Knowledge from Experience and the Discovery of the Creator
Descartes: ‘I Think Therefore I Am’
Immanuel Kant on Reason’s Role in Understanding
Aristotle on Higher Forms of Knowledge
Matthew Arnold on Learning ‘the Best Which Has Been Thought and Said’
E.D. Hirsch on ‘Cultural Literacy’

    Knowledge Relativism: More Recent Times

Sextus Empiricus, The Sceptic, On Not Being Dogmatic
E.D. Hirsch on ‘Cultural Literacy’
Nietzsche on the Impossibility of Truth
Wittgenstein on the Way We Make Meanings with Language
Richard Rorty on Truth and Language
Aronowitz and Giroux on Postmodern Education
George Pell on the Dictatorship of Relativism

    Knowledge Repertoires: New learning

Socrates’ Defence
Husserl on the Task of Science, in and of the Lifeworld
They Knew Much More Than We Realised

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