Knowledge Compromise(d)?

Knowledge can be many things; it can be metaphysical, enhancing the understanding of human beings and social relations. It can be hard facts, information, structures and ordering of nature. Knowledge can be inherent in the knowing subject – the emancipated subject – or it can exist as an entity independent of its founder. An apposite metaphor is knowledge as an end in itself or knowledge as a means to an end; do we learn for the joy of knowing or do we learn in order to manipulate an object or p