Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Well Carpe Diem I have frantically finished all my final exams in an attempt to fly home early tomorrow morning. Since I will be on a plane tomorrow I decided I would post my final blog early tonight. I would first like to say its been a great semester and I was really glad I was able to learn from such fine bright peers. You guys have been very helpful in my attempt to gain as much knowledge as possible in this class. During the Salon my discussion always seemed to lead to one subject: the distinction between the Sophic view of knowledge and Mantic, what is spiritual knowledge and what is worldly and what are the implications of both? So naturally that is what I decided to make my thesis and final blog post about. Here it is:

While some would argue that certain types of knowledge are sophic and others mantic, there are elements of both the sophic and mantic in all four types of knowledge that we studied in class. Both views of knowledge are appropriate in certain contexts, while the mantic yields more effect in the transmitting of spiritual knowledge and the sophic has more effect with the transmission of more conventional and scientific knowledge. The question arises with the sophic vs. mantic, what are the different implications and spectrums of effectiveness between knowledge that is transmitted in a spiritual manner and knowledge communicated by worldly means.