Javanese Epistemology Revisited  

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Sugiharto, Bambang

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Melintas: An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion vol. 24 no. 03 (Dec. 2008), page 369-384.
Topik: Ana tan ana; Emanation; Laku; Rasa; Virtues; Focal Awareness; Tacit awareness; Experience
Fulltext: 24_03_Bambang Sugiharto.pdf (171.06KB)

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For the Javanese the whole life is a manifestation of the Absolute. Therefore it is not possible to separate the sacred from the profane, neither morality from religiosity, nor epistemology from ethics. Knowledge, as the pursuit of the truth, is not viewed as in empirical tradition in which the mind perceives objects out there through the creation of representations of them by the nervous systems and registered by the brain (Representationalism); neither as in Cartesian intellectualism in which knowledge is founded on indubitable certainties (Foundationalism). It is, instead, a matter of doing and venturing (Laku) in which one is to go deeper: from gross physical body, through subtle body, to the sublime soul. The centre of gravity of this pursuit is rasa ( inner feeling, ultimate secret, the bearer of the divine life, the vehicle of life). Rasa is the quintessence of all the three parts of human structure : the head, the chest and the genital ( the scrotum).

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