Is there a hermetic endgame in Buddhist traditions, where they secretly fix the student's epistemology and truth criteria (~Kegan 4), after they deliberately kept the student at Kegan 3 to use authority for fixing the student's motivational structure (~Kegan 5)? @Meaningness
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Stage 4 does give you more control, because you do take beliefs and emotions as object, rather than subject. However, your self (subject) is structured by principles you take over from your culture; you can’t construct those from scratch.
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Rationalism/empiricism is one possible stage 4 structure.
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Do you think that there are multiple valid epistemologies (i.e. systems to establish truth that lead to different truths but are equally valid)? And don't you think that public availability is incidental instead of relevant?
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I don’t think there are any valid epistemologies—not in the strong sense rationalism wants. And, I do think public availability is critical. Individual minds are no powerful enough to go more than a tiny bit beyond what’s already understood.
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