ABSTRACT
The process of knowing, which involves the whole conscious self, feelings, emotions, memory, affects, an epistemologically curious mind, focused on the object, equally involves other thinking subjects, that is, others also capable of knowing and curious. In truth, discussion of two types of knowing implies a debate over practice and theory that can only be understood if they are perceived and captured in their contradictory relationship. They are never isolated, each one in itself; there is never only theory, never only practice. It is precisely because people become capable of inventing existence, something more than the life that it implies but supplants, that growing to people gradually becomes much more complex and problematic, in the rigorous sense of this adjective, than growing is to trees and animals. It is in growing as a totality that each one of us is, as it is sometimes called in sugary speeches, in the "harmonious growth of being".
