Knowledge in Forming the Public Sphere

Abstract

The analyses presented in the article are formed upon a classical definition of knowledge according to Plato, which is a justified true belief. The array of strategies in forming the public sphere on the basis of knowledge is related to the division between episteme knowledge and doxa knowledge, as well as true and false knowledge. This understanding of knowledge is challenged with a dialectic strain between the practice of protecting the true knowledge and intruding false knowledge. This concerns such a strain in which the knowledge is true as a logical value, sanctioned only by its negation which is considered false. The true knowledge is supported by various institutions which, depending on historic conditions, sanction it according to the binding criteria.