Browsing by Author "Rauche, G. A."

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    Knowledge and Experience.
    (University of Fort Hare, 1990) Rauche, G. A.
    This hermeneutical approach to the methodology of human knowledge, in the context of the continuing debate over the basic questions of knowledge and truth in the individual sciences and in philosophy, seeks to show man the way out of his present existential dilemma and guide him towards his self-emancipation from the current science dogma and technology cult. Its purpose is to make him aware of his being dominated by a one-dimensional, functionalistic way of thinking and of the dire consequences that spring from it. He is reminded that he is not a one-dimensional but a multi-dimensional being. In terms of the methodology ok knowledge, this means that there is only one type of knowledge but that there are various types, which are methodologically constituted as theories from man's basic contingent (variable, changing) experience of reality.
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    The Philosophy of Actuality.
    (University of Fort Hare, 1963) Rauche, G. A.
    When we speak of actuality, we must clearly distinguish it from reality. The latter is, in the last instance, a metaphysical concept; for what we mean by it is in the world as it exists independently of our perception. This, however, is precisely what we do not know, and it is in this sense that the world or reality is transcendent. What we do know is the world as we see it, or rather, how we build it. To know the world means to arrange our chaotic surroundings so that they become meaningful and familiar to us. To know the world is therefore to build it, so that we can live in it. It then becomes our world, i.e., we are part of it, and it is part of us. We never know the world as it exists away from us, so that our actions do not really affect it, but we know it by building it. Hence, knowing is identical with becoming or acting.