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Exoteric refers to knowledge that's outside of and independent from anyone's experience and can be ascertained by anyone. It is distinguished from
esoteric knowledge. Exoteric relates to "external reality" as opposed to one's own thoughts or feelings. It is knowledge that's
public as opposed to secretive or cabalistic. It isn't required that exoteric knowledge come easily or automatically, but it should be referenceable or reproducible.
Philosophical context
Most philosophical and religious belief systems presume that reality must be independent of what an individual makes of it. However, even before the days of
Plato, a prominent alternate
theory of knowledge insisted that the perceived outside reality is merely an internal fabrication of the observer and that it has no existence or substance outside the imagination of the observer. Thus, the reality we interact with is therefore merely a consensus we've reached; if we choose to imagine it otherwise, it'll change. From this, one may conclude that anything labeled as "exoteric" is in fact "esoteric". When taken to its logical extremes, the result is
solipsism, the notion that it's "all in our heads".
Religious context
The term
exoteric is mostly used in conjunction with religions, such as
Judaism, in which the teachings shift the believer's focus away from the exploration of the inner self and towards the adherence to rules, laws and an individual God.
The term
exoteric may also reflect the notion of a divine identity outside and different from the identity of a human, whereas the esoteric notion claims that the divine is to be discovered within the human identity. One step further, the pantheistic notion suggests that the divine and the material world is one and the same.
Other contexts
Exoteric also refers to knowledge that's outside the human perspective. For instance, "exoterically speaking, the human organism is highly organized matter, actively engaged in a fight against entropy. The human mind is a quality of the brain."
Etymology
The prefix 'exo' has
Greek roots and means "outer".
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