Episode 173: Relating to American Indian Philosophy (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We go further into "Philosophy of Native Science" by Gregory Cajete and "What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us: An Outline of American Indian Epistemology" by Brian Yazzie Burkhart, plus process philosophy, propositional vs. procedural knowledge, and what we owe to nature. With guest Jim Marunich.
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End song: "Circle's Gotta Go" by Kim Rancourt, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #52.
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| 0:17.0 | You're listening to The Partial Exam of Life. |
| 0:18.4 | This is part two of episode 173 on Native American Flossy. |
| 0:22.7 | We're here with our guest, Jim Maroonick. |
| 0:24.9 | And in our first half, we were kind of getting stuck on the whole. |
| 0:28.3 | They seem to literally believe supernatural things, |
| 0:31.5 | whereas when we're trying to incorporate Native American thought into modern philosophy, |
| 0:36.6 | we necessarily try to interpret it in a way that naturalizes those supernatural claims. |
| 0:42.7 | And so instead of talking literally about ritual affecting the world, |
| 0:46.7 | maybe we're talking about rituals, psychological effects on people. |
| 0:51.0 | So I think in the second half here, we want to get a little more into the specifics of what, |
| 0:55.3 | at least the Burkhardt and Kayaate articles had to say, |
| 0:58.3 | I was just thinking that the propositional knowledge section in the Burkhardt, |
| 1:02.5 | it would be a good place for us to work on where if I go to the beginning here, |
| 1:08.2 | he characterizes propositional knowledge, his knowledge of the form that something is so, |
| 1:13.3 | is the kind of knowledge that can be written down, that can be directly conveyed through statements or propositions, |
| 1:18.4 | as opposed to non-propositional knowledge, knowledge by direct awareness or acquaintance, |
| 1:23.7 | and how to knowledge or knowledge of how to do something. |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah, and in the Burkhardt article, did you all encounter the part about the three sisters, |
| 1:33.0 | corn, beans, and squash? |
| 1:35.0 | Do you want to sum up what that is before we? |
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