Is there a Connection between Knowledge (Epistemology), Reality (Ontology) and Leadership?

Abstract

Examining the literature on philosophy, including the works of Plato and Buddha, we see that the body of knowledge of philosophy has experienced exponential growth, radicalisation, and transition from early theorisations. Philosophical perspectives have seeped into many other disciplines and influenced all facets of the academic landscape. Philosophy has subtly found its way into religion, health and nutrition, spirituality, mathematics, family life, demography, sociology and medicine, politics, and Education. To grasp why philosophy has seeped into the consciousness of all facets of human reality, a review of something Knight postulated put the pieces together: philosophy is " …examining, synthesising, analysing, speculating, prescribing and evaluating" information and their values and beliefs" (Knight, 2006, p. 5).The study of philosophy has guided man in his limited quest for knowledge, and yet the ultimate knowledge is simple: God. This ultimate God is so complex that humans have missed it for materialism. Why do we say this? Because man wants to create his intellectualisation of what is or what he thinks is and boast of their accomplishment, they have circumvented seeking God as the primary vehicle for understanding life. Historically, humans have intellectualised much to recognise it as a fallacy. The world was flat and a truth; the educational system taught and supported this philosophy to unearth whether this was a myth or wrong. Historically, there have been many, including the works of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the sound barrier.Leadership is only a subset of an individual's philosophy, which frames their reality, interprets what and accounts for one's reality, how knowledge is attained, and values in leadership discourse.