NAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vine Deloria Jr., American Philosophy, Schizophrenia
19 Jan 2017
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Philosophy is the study we engage in to understand the fundamental truths about ourselves, the world in which we live, the relationships we have with that world and with one another. Indigenous ways of knowing are based on the notion that individuals comprehend their environment based in collective living/wisdom found in stories dating back thousands of years. Indigenous ways of knowing are tied to land, the land is a library, and places on the land are marked as wisdom places. Cues in the land that trigger memories. Within lived experience, we develop codes of conduct relating to peaceful internal and external relations. (balance) lived experience. Ethics guide our understanding of right/wrong, moral/immoral within that. Typically, western philosophy has dominated the university(cid:495)s classrooms re what we know and how we know it. Epistemology = ecologically specific rhythms, patterns and events. Western and north american ways of knowing are distinctive.
