Map of Ignorance and Horizon of Consciousness
"Map of ignorance" is a schematic set of questions by which we become aware of what we need to know in order to better understand what we already know at a certain stage of our cognitive evolution. "Horizon of consciousness" is the limit of what we understand in this phase.
A poor or empty "map of ignorance" signals a closed horizon of consciousness that is unable to expand. Any philosophical doctrine automatically insinuates, through its very existence, its respective map of ignorance. The problem is: in whose eyes? From the philosopher himself or from his reader only? Is the philosopher aware of the main and immediate problems that he would need to solve to give full reason for his doctrine, or does he simply present it as self-sufficient, as if his horizon of consciousness was the limit of human consciousness in his time? Were the problems that a philosophy immediately suggests to the reader incorporated by the philosopher in his map of ignorance, or are they just part of his unconsciousness?
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