with Hitchens on this statement‚ taking the believers of the Abrahamic religions as an example; they believe that their prophets came with miracles like Christ walking on water for example. They don’t have concrete evidence yet to them they see that what came in either the Torah‚ Bible or the Qura’an is definite truth for many reasons; each generation was told by those before them that these stories did take place so the generations that supposedly witnessed the miracles told their kids about them
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are linked to our perception of beauty? My topic will focus on the distorted body images that the media portrays‚ especially for women and young girls. I want to inform you about what the media is doing‚ how they are directly affecting the self-esteem and confidence of women and young girls‚ and what the negative consequences of this can be. I will focus on how the media can cause women to develop eating disorders‚ lead to low self-esteem‚ negative attitudes to their body images‚ and unsafe
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way they are. The environment around us‚ and the things we see and come to know are determined by who we are‚ and how we want to understand them. Imagine seeing an object in a room‚ the shape of it‚ the color every detail‚ but you can’t understand what the object is just by seeing it. The case study “A World Without patterns‚ Faces without Meaning” by Hilary Lawson‚ studies a
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explore it? I have always been captivated by the concepts and theories of what makes art “beautiful.” Since I am an artist myself‚ I had wanted to improve by finding what “beauty” is to everyone. As I learned in Theory of Knowledge (ToK) class‚ art‚ like history‚ is subjective to the individual‚ but one cannot deny there are some objective truths to the facts that compose the art world. My curiosity to define “beauty” in art and the components that constitute a “beautiful” artwork led to my previous
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Theory of knowledge Epistemology (theory of knowledge) is a small branch of philosophy‚ which includes studies of nature‚ methods‚ limitations‚ validity of knowledge‚ and also belief. Follows are some of the differences between Islamic and Secular perspective on this issue: Knowledge-by secular perspective * Meaning: A study of phenomena of nature that deny God as a creator. * Knowledge is information or data that can be verified through scientific experiments. * Individual are knowledgeable
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Knowledge Issue: There a conflict between emotion and reason within physics. How far do you agree with this? What is physics? It comes from the Greek word physis. “Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space-time‚ along with related concepts such as energy and force”- Wikipedia. Physics is everything in this world. It is used to see how the universe behaves. This makes both reason and emotion a part of physics despite their importance in the proving
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Sarah Lee Word Count: 1534 Shared knowledge‚ in common sense‚ refers to a body of knowledge that is commonly accepted or rejected by a collective organization (IB TOK guide). Personal knowledge‚ on the other hand‚ refers to a body knowledge acquired from experiences of a particular individual (IB TOK guide). Since human beings are political animals‚ as Aristotle aptly points out‚ as humans‚ we are born into a certain form of community or society. Being born into a society requires
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To what extent do personal attributes affect Ways of Knowing‚ and why‚ if at all‚ does answering this question matter in the first place? It is known that there are four means through which human beings acquire knowledge of their surroundings; the ways of reason‚ emotion‚ sense perception and language. However‚ are these entirely reliable? Different individuals possess different opinions of concepts and ideas‚ and this has not only been the reason of many conflicts and wars but has aided
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Primary emotions are: * Happiness * Sadness * Fear * Anger * Surprise * Disgust These emotions are inborn‚ not learnt‚ as even born blind and deaf people display these emotions. The James-Lange theory It explains the connection between our emotion and our body. Named after the psychologist who created the theory‚ it states that emotions are physical in nature. It is a physical change that brings about any emotional change. E.g. If you were nervous‚ remove all the symptoms
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TOK SCAFFOLDING HANDOUT TITLE: Option 5 "Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgements." To what extent do you agree with this statement. Possible Knowledge Questions " To what extent can our own bias actually be reliable upon what we don’t truly know about"? " Is it justified that one’s culture and upbringing can influence their sense of opinion?" "Can our own emotional human mind impact the way we perceive certain views?" "What roles does our own bias bring upon out instinctive
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