Point Of Knowledge

"The whole point of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Aruna Gopalan
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From its inception, this question faces many obstacles in being answered clearly. In the first point, by simply mentioning "knowledge" rather than shared or personal knowledge, the question leaves up to interpretation which form of knowledge is used to produce meaning and purpose. Indeed, it seems the question cannot focus on a particular type of knowledge, as it's talking about the whole point of knowledge, as if there was a singular purpose for which knowledge could be gained. Limiting oneself to shared or personal knowledge severely limits the scope of knowledge one can

These two areas, I argue, effect a person's memory and their reasoning ability the most, as these are two aspects of knowledge which are tied together- as a person's knowledge of their history is what allows them to form opinions of other people, mechanisms, etc. Only because it's been recorded that fire burns man do people now know to keep aware from fire. I'll also be talking about faith, defined as "complete trust of confidence in something," and how this way of knowing, often used blindly, can use history and memory to defy reason. With these connections established, I now propose my question- to what extent is historical and religious knowledge relevant beyond producing personal meaning and

It's hard to claim to have a fixed purpose in life, as the access we have to knowledge and subsequent nature of the knowledge itself is constantly changing. What happens when someone completes a mission which they previously claimed was their "reason for existing" or their "purpose in life"? They do not then cease to exist- with the knowledge they have accumulated they simply formulate a new mission for them to explore. Not all knowledge has a continuously adapting nature, however. This can easily be seen in the case of religion, wherein many devout Catholics have come under fire for criticizing the Supreme Court's decision to approve of gay marriage in all 50 states in the US. The adaptive nature of knowledge is what the critics advocated for- by claiming that religion must adapt to the realities of the current day and age. It is therefore hard to claim that there is a single purpose in life which is formulated by objective shared or personal knowledge, because knowledge is adaptive and flowing in its