Antonio José Arnal Meinhardt

The Measure of Knowledge: Knowledge, Balance, and the Examined Life

This essay examines how to decide which forms of knowledge are worth cultivating when the information available exceeds our capacity to absorb it. It distinguishes three kinds of value in knowledge—instrumental, broadening, and experiential or existential—and proposes allocating...

The Measure of Knowledge: Knowledge, Balance, and the Examined Life

This essay examines how to decide which forms of knowledge are worth cultivating when the information available exceeds our capacity to absorb it. It distinguishes three kinds of value in knowledge—instrumental, broadening, and experiential or existential—and proposes allocating...