Wednesday, September 13th, 1978

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

SEPTEMBER 13, 1978

EPISTEMOLOGY; PERCEPTION

TOPIC: Epistemology

SUBJECT: Perception

SUBSUBJECT: Knowledge

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Rene Guenon, The Multiple States of the Being

• C.E.M. Joad, Guide to Philosophy

• Swami Satprakashananda, Methods of Knowledge, Perceptual, Non-perceptual, and Transcendental according to Advaita Vedanta

• Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of C.G. Jung

• Thomas Taylor (tr.), The Timaeus (Vol. 2), in The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles

• Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception

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NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All spelling, capitalization, and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1978 09/13 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Epistemology; Perception

[Alan Notes 0913 1978 Begin]

9/13/78 Epistemology

Duns Scotus

Guenon -- Multiple States -- chapter on senses as entrances and exits [Note: Rene Guenon, The Multiple States of the Being, Chapter 15.]

Joad -- pp. 25ff, 31 [Note: C.E.M. Joad, Guide to Philosophy.]

Methods of Knowledge According to Vedanta -- p. 102 [Note: Swami Satprakashananda, Methods of Knowledge, Perceptual, Non-perceptual, and Transcendental according to Advaita Vedanta,]

Jacobi -- Psychology of Jung -- p. 10ff, 4 functions [Note: Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of C.G. Jung.]

[Note: It is not clear in AB notes whether the above booklist is part of this class or a list of selections that was read while AB was on vacation.]

Problem: if there is a world that is presented to us through our psyche, how is this done? What is the via media? Problem of the 'gap'.

Is there something outside the individual mind which is experienced in perception (knowledge)?

The means of perception determine the reality we perceive.

The scale of perception determines what is real for you.

What do we really know of what is given to the mind?

Read paragraph on sight in "Introduction to Timaeus". [Note: Thomas Taylor, "Introduction to the Timaeus," in Volume 2 of The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles.]

Chapters on Buddhist Epistemology in Sinha. [Note: Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1934. In 1958, with some additional chapters added on Memory, Imagination, Thought and Language, this book was published as Indian Psychology: Cognition, Volume 1.]

First few chapters in Joad. [Note: C.E.M. Joad, Guide to Philosophy.]

[Alan Notes 0913 1978 End]