Explain The Knower's Perspective Is Essential In The Pursuit Of Knowledge

“The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge. To what extent does this apply?” A dad overhears his daughter coming home, telling her friend “I did it!” Depending on whether the dad has an overprotective or optimistic perspective of his daughter, the dad will further investigate by either stalking current and past boyfriends or flipping through the stack of college acceptance letters to figure out what “it” refers to. A perspective is the frame of mind through which a person processes thoughts. It determines the methods that the investigator will use to obtain knowledge and gives direction to the inquirer's search. To clarify, “the knower's perspective is essential” means that its is extremely important or influential to have a perspective when pursuing knowledge. Perspectives not only include the knower’s personal knowledge but also their disposition.
In the events following World War II, mounds of data flooded countries like the US containing detailed accounts of Nazi experimentation. Through language and propaganda, Hitler was able to shift Germany’s indigenous knowledge so that the Jews’ lives did not matter (Wilkerson). Germany’s ethical system did not care that the scientists were experimenting on human life. However, after the war, the boxes of data were left sealed in their respective boxes. Though the Nazi’s percieved the Jewish lives to be insignificant, the Americans believed that the Nazi experiments were a breach in their ethics. Even now, Americans still do not read through Nazi experimentation in fears that the knowledge they find will justify Nazi experimentation. As a part of the knower’s perspective, the knower’s memories of the horrors the Nazis enacted inhibits him/her from pursuing the knowledge within the boxes. The knower’s perspective is an integral part of the pursuit in knowledge in this case because it inhibits the knower from doing