BAFOKENG SEKALELI TOK ESSAY CAN WE HAVE BELIEFS OR KNOWLEDGE WHICH ARE INDEPENDENT OF OUR CULTURE? The main aim of the essay is to find out if we have beliefs or rather knowledge which are independent of our culture. To do my investigation‚ I am going to follow different areas of beliefs and culture that I need. Culture is roughly perhaps a range of activities which are cultivated as a pattern of behaviour in a group of humans over time‚ and the manifest
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1) " Can we have beliefs or knowledge which are independent of our culture?" Culture is “mankind’s primary adaptive mechanism". Essentially‚ culture is a shared store of values and beliefs common to a group of people. The prevalence of culture in the life of the individual leads to the question‚ " Can we have beliefs or knowledge which are independent of our culture?" Two terms must first be defined: knowledge and beliefs. A belief may be defined as “the ideas in which we have faith in
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Claim: Can we have knowledge independent of our culture? Counterclaim: All knowledge is based on our culture‚ without culture there is no knowledge. Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people‚ defined by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine‚ social habits‚ music and arts. Since we come into the world‚ we become part of a culture. Our parents and guardians slowly push us into it‚ they teach us about values‚ traditions‚ religion and everything else that can be called culture
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In Meno‚ Socrates and Meno have a discussion on virtue and they encounter a problem. If virtue is teachable‚ it must be knowledge. However‚ since there are no teachers and students of virtue‚ virtue must not be taught. So they think that virtue is not knowledge. And then they start the discussion on what is true belief and knowledge. In this essay‚ I would evaluate Socrates’s explanation on why knowledge is better than mere true belief and the reasons that I agree with Socrates’s proposition. Socrates’s
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between belief and knowledge in the given dialogue. Then explain what the importance of this distinction is. In Gorgias‚ Plato uses a conversation between two men to lay the groundwork for knowledge and belief‚ suggesting that everything is subjective when it comes to these words‚ and their definitions are open for much interpretation past their most simplest of meanings. Gorgias is meant as a guideline in which we can decide whether or not an object‚ idea‚ or event is belief or knowledge. So you
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SERVICE LEARNING: CONTRIBUTING TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE LIVE BY APPLYING THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE Milena Ristovska‚ M. Sc. Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” Skopje‚ Republic of Macedonia e-mail: milena@eccf.ukim.edu.mk Abstract Although well-established and with a long tradition in different countries worldwide‚ service learning is a completely unknown practice in Republic of Macedonia. This is the reason why the author attempted to make a
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that we can from time to time trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge. And generally we presume that it may be possible to know when to trust emotions and that emotions can help us in the acquisition of knowledge. And you may challenge these presumptions. Maybe it is not possible to know when to trust our emotions‚ and maybe our emotions have a limited value in the pursuit of knowledge‚ but to what I aim to analyse is to what extent do our emotions play a role in the pursuit of knowledge.
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Can we know when to trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge. When I make a painting‚ I use the knowledge I’ve gained from studying art‚ for example‚ combining colors‚ the uses of different media and different surfaces‚ and how to represent something so that it is recognizable to others. This means I use knowledge to implement the “how” of the painting. But what about the “what” of the painting‚ the content? For example‚ I draw faces
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emotions help us in getting knowledge during the history? I think‚ that the best example of this will be war‚ as it’s always full of emotions‚ such as fear‚ pain‚ hope‚ sorrow‚ loss and others. All of them makes people’s minds unclear and spoiled so they can’t perceive the reality properly. For example‚ there is a story about the Second World War. One German soldier was in a special group of people who was walking through the villages gathering supplies. Once they have been ambushed by Russian partisans
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Are we really Independent… Our 1st Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlala Nehru quoted : "Hum LayeHainTufan Se Kashti Nikal Ke‚Is desh ko rakhna mere baccho sambhal ke" By this punch-line the Govt. might want to convey to the future generation that please be careful regarding the foreign trade policies. They wanted us to be sure of the fact that our country shouldn’t get dependent on other nations‚ and our Govt.’s prior to 1991 strictly followed a closed economy paradigm. The Turing point: In
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