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Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello (1990) Paperback
Anthony DeMelloamazon.comEpisode 83: Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole — Overthink podcast
overthinkpodcast.comTo have a "standpoint" means to be able to not only experience the harms of a social or political system, but to recognize the ways in which that system interacts with one's identity. While "lived experience" can be personal and reasonably unreflective, standpoint epistemology is a position of knowing "earned" through intentional analysis.
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more