Proxy to Praxis & the search for Wisdom

Paulo Friere defines Praxis as "reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it." 1

Priest Matthew Fox said this about wisdom:

 

"Wisdom is always taste – in both Latin and Hebrew, the word for wisdom comes from the word for taste – so it’s something to taste, not something to theorize about.

 

"Taste and see that God is good," the psalm says; and that’s wisdom: tasting life. No one can do it for us."2

 

LoGoS: a ground,  a plea, an opinion, an expectation, word, speech, account, reason. Principle of order and knowledge.

 

EtHoS: custom, habit, disposition, character, fundamental values, "The Spirit that motivates the ideas and customs."

1. practical skills & wisdom

2. virtue, goodness

3, goodwill toward audience

 

PaThOs: appeal to emotions, sympathies and imagination; suffering, experience

 

Note to self: study Greek philosophy. Friedrich Schuller (german poet).

 

 

 

1. Freire, P. (1986) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum. p. 36

2.  YES! Magazine.