Writing a TOK Essay It is important that you examine what the question is asking of you to do this you must understand each part of the question Thus one of the first stages of writing a TOK essay is to “unpack the title.” Complete the table below regarding your essay question: Unpacking the Essay Title: Question title: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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From the IBO TOK Guide 2015 Knowledge questions TOK is primarily concerned with knowledge questions. This phrase is used often in describing what is seen in a good TOK presentation or a good TOK essay. An essay or presentation that does not identify and treat a knowledge question has missed the point. It also occurs in the assessment descriptors that examiners use to mark the essay and that the teacher uses to mark the presentation. To put it briefly‚ the whole point of the presentat
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What is intuition? Our dictionaries define intuition as the ability of acquiring knowledge without a clear inference or the use of knowledge‚ without the use of any reasoning process. Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. After analysing this definition we must ask ourselves if this definition is totally reliable‚ isn’t intuition directly connected with our personal experience? To what extent is intuition to be taken as seriously in the different areas of knowledge
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in writing this is to argue for the existence of an objective morality based entirely on rational and scientific reasoning. By "objective morality" I do not simply mean that morality exists in the sense that various societies consider various actions to be immoral. What I mean is that certain actions are inherently right or wrong regardless of what any society thinks about them. In other words‚ I mean that there is an "objective morality" which exists independently of human beliefs and human civilization
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Title: TOK Essay 1/2012 Question: When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Name: Syaza Yasirah Bte Abu Bakar Class: P2 Index number: 14 Word Count: 1439 The Ways of Knowing of sense is related to empirical observation. From empiricism we might get facts‚ knowledge and truth. In this case‚ when our senses are reliable‚ it is defined as trust. Truth can be determined based on the three theories of truth. Although none of them is entirely satisfactory‚ each of the theories
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Morality of War There are nine conditions under which fighting a war can be moral. Although‚ that does not mean that wars are moral‚ especially not any of the wars this country has engaged itself in. War seems to be the most destructive type of human interaction. No other medium allows people to kill each other in such massive numbers or to cause immense suffering. Wars often take years to develop and can last for an undetermined amount of years. The effects can reverberate for decades if
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Moral Issues in Business Chapter One The Nature of Morality Terminology • What is ethics? • The study of right and wrong • Distinguish between ethics and morality? • Some people distinguish between the two. We will use them interchangeably. • What is business ethics? • The study of what constitutes right and wrong‚ or good and bad‚ human conduct in a business context. Non-Moral Standards • Characteristics of moral standards • Concern behavior that is of serious consequence to human welfare • Take
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When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing? Intuition is a moment of insight when one makes decisions without going through any conscious or deliberate process of reasoning. The process of intuition isn’t fully understood‚ sometimes referred to as a ‘gut feeling’ and it is a phenomenon which can only be explained by the sub-conscious‚ or by accepting that sometimes knowledge is not procured by an active systematic process. There are several types of intuition – core intuitions
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Ethics and Morality Nedra Dennis Ethics 316 Sept. 16‚2012 Cramela David Ethics and Morality Explain the difference between ethics and morality. Define two ethical theories introduces in this course along with their proponents and the major criticisms of the theory. Ethics are the principles of conduct governing an individual or group and morals are our personal character. John was 32 when he died from asbestos‚ he was working at a corporation when
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Title: ’ ’There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment. ’ ’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? Knowledge as an abstract concept1 is supposed to help us developing skills and the ability to think for ourselves throughout our whole life and obviously there are various ways to gain it‚ for example by observing the world around us or through active experiment‚ such as in the area
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