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Part 1 of the series “In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing”

Dara Macdonald

Aug 11, 2022

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This is the first installment in a series In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing.

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In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing

In his book The War on the West, the erudite Douglas Murray mocks the claim that ‘Other Ways of Knowing’ (or indigenous knowledge) should be taught in schools. Murray flippantly dismisses this by saying that we don’t ask the Inuit to create a vaccine. Implicit here is the idea that the rational or scientific way of looking at the world is the only one o…

3 years ago · 2 likes · Dara Macdonald

One aspect of the Western indigenous tradition – and something shared by pretty much every culture that is indigenous to a place – is an understanding that we are influenced by nature. I have heard a lot of Christians refer to this as a kind of nature worship. But to be influe…

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