The question ““The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree?” prompts us to investigate the part knower’s perspective plays in achieving knowledge. This question is particularly interesting because it gives us the opportunity to examine certain people like Albert Einstein whose unique perspective at the time has led to numerous scientific discoveries. Also the question allows us to have a different approach based on the areas of knowledge, giving a large amount of examples to use. The real life examples that will be provided later on in this essay proves that perspective plays a key role in pursuit of …show more content…
Taking the arguments presented in account, we can say that perspective is an essential part of the pursuit of personal knowledge and perspective is biased by the shared knowledge the knower has. This means it is easy to come to biased conclusions when seeking answers to questions. It is important for a knower to be aware of the role their perspective plays in the pursuit as well as the importance of shared knowledge, so the knower could have an objective, unbiased conclusion in their search for answers.
So to answer the question at hand, I believe the arguments presented concludes that the knower’s perspective is essential in pursuit of knowledge, to a certain extent. It is observed that the perspective of the knower is not essential in all areas of knowing, history is an example. But in areas of knowing like natural sciences the perspective of the knower is essential. So to generalize, we could state that the perspective of the knower is essential if the area of knowing is not governed by static rules unlike history or mathematics where the facts are static and