True knowledge - False knowledge
True knowledge
In developing the theory of Ideas, Plato claims that “True Knowledge is the Knowledge of Being!” and continues: The Knowledge which refers to the concepts of Justice, Equality, Good, Beauty, the Soul before it was even bound to the body, had recognized them within itself at a pre-cosmic period of its existence.
This proves that learning is a memory of what our soul enjoyed in a previous life. The drugged memory is awakened when it sees things that are similar or even different from its previous known forms. The pre-experiential Knowledge, then, which lies inertia within us until the moment when the new, arising impressions of the senses have caused the comparison as well as the correlation so that if our consciousness is awakened, it is the real Knowledge.
A basic question about the Knowledge of the material world, in the pre-Socratic period in Ancient Greece, concerned the following:
“Does matter contain within it the Infinite? Or not? “Theoretically, until today there is no definitive cognitive answer, for the reason that Science cannot answer: What is matter? Democritus worshipped Knowledge so strongly that, when he approached the explanation of a phenomenon, of any phenomenon, he declared that this made him the happiest man in the world.
Leucippus believed that Knowledge is the “knowledge of the Law”, and the Law was responsible for the validity of causality in the operation of the “becoming of the world”. He believed that nothing in nature and the world is done by chance : “Nothing is made by chance, but by reason and necessity”. If we take into account that Knowledge never stops and that man in every age discovers something that overturns the dogma of a previous age, we reflect on the ancient Greek saying: «Τυφλός τω τοίχω επερειδόμενος, έως ώδε ο κόσμος έφη».
Meaning: When the blind man struck the barrier of the wall, he said: “This is as far as the world goes! It is supposed that, in Philosophy, there are two forms and three kinds of knowledge. In the forms one Knowledge is genuine and the other is adulterated. In the adulterated one are : sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell.
In the genuine they place only the energies of Thought and Mind. In the three kinds of Knowledge are described: The useful, the useless and the destructive! The duty of the cognitive man is his constant occupation in seeking useful knowledge, in despising the useless and in being hostile to the destructive.
Knowledge of the laws of physics is optional but absolutely essential. Theological knowledge requires a sufficiency of mental balance, cultural guidance and in-depth study of the Science Scriptures. Research requires judging the historical continuity, the guidance or direction of the authors of the scriptures, the intentionality of the command centers that create the scriptures, and the general ethical background that underlies the literature on the Sciences, Arts, Letters, Churches, and religions.
False knowledge
“The false knowledge of the false Being is a double lie for Knowledge”
False knowledge is shaped by man’s incentives to seek biblical or other sources that will meet his cognitive needs concerning his material interests. Those who are burdened with the oscillating defect of false knowledge sometimes occupy positions in politics, religion, academia, business, etc.
The “supposedly” successful in branches of power, of any power, sometimes promote asymmetrical ideas through consumer information, while the acceptance of their views by the non-deep thinkers widens the gap between the real and the unreal, the true and the untrue.
Where knowledge follows interest, there is a rape of morality and harmony. Where organised centres of power become the bearers of false news, false information, false literature, false history and the guiding of the values of Virtue, there is chaos of conscience. It is certain that true science and true wisdom will soon in the near future reduce the gap between true knowledge and false knowledge for both science and religion.
The ideal State, as Socrates envisioned it and as Plato made it known to the learning peoples of the Earth, is certainly in no danger of extinction, but in the stream of the future it will be incessantly besieged by the followers of destructive knowledge. The Ancient Greek Literature is a unique source of inspiration for every pupil, for every student, for every scientist who wish to discover in depth of understanding the nectar of the Moral Life that arises through the knowledge of the great sages who offered by their work, the True Knowledge to the peoples of the world for every age!