As Linus Pauling said “You aren’t going to have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas and some principle of selection” (Linus Pauling, 1901–1994). To have lots of ideas from different Areas of Knowledge by learning how things are done is the gain of shared knowledge, but the ability to select good ideas using different ways of knowing such as emotions, faith, reason and sense perception is personal knowledge because it is acquired by an individual. Shared knowledge is the product of a group of people working together. It evolves over time; this is because of continued application of methods of inquiry (IB TOK Guide, 2013:17) and changing scientific theories. On the other hand, personal knowledge is described as the work of a single individual …show more content…
In contrast, I will also show that personal knowledge can also shape shared knowledge. The question will be discussed with reference to natural sciences and religious knowledge systems using language, reason, sense perception and faith to describe how knowledge is gained. This raises a knowledge question; to what extent is knowledge dependent on previous discoveries and inventions in natural sciences? While looking at natural sciences and religious knowledge systems, personal knowledge of individuals is more because of shared knowledge that has been shared using language and reason. Shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge because it uses reasoning. This means that to pass information to the next generation, there have to be reasons given for convincing and understanding …show more content…
Using faith, which brings about intimate relationship with God, differs from individuals. This means the understanding beyond sense perception, such as experiencing miracles in Christianity like getting healed by a priest and for a Muslim to understand the importance of Mohammed’s vision; about Allah and Islamic religion. Experiencing miracles comes with faith, which is personal and not shaped by shared knowledge. Muslims in the same religious groups may have different faith. This does not mean they have received different shared knowledge but their faith used to interpret shared knowledge is different. Therefore, not all personal knowledge is shaped by religious teachings. However, I still argue that if it was not of being raised in a certain religion, an individual would not develop solid understanding of a certain religion. For example, if a Christian prophet was never taught of God through Jesus, he would not have the ability to reveal things from God. This proofs that a personal relationship with God is the result of shared knowledge from religious
Relating knowledge to our hardships is a key way of getting information
Strength of Individual Thought The importance of following one’s own thoughts versus the benefits of following the ideas of others is an often-disputed topic with valid points on both sides of the argument. John Hersey writes A Bell for Adano with this idea of the difference between self-thought and inherited thought in mind. Although the book was written in 1944, it has still managed to maintain relevance throughout the years with its overlying messages.
The human mind’s ability and innate desire to justify and explain the world and its phenomena has led to some of the most significant and world-altering discoveries and inventions, illustrated throughout the renaissance, enlightenment, scientific revolution, and industrial revolution. Logical pursuits comprise a significant capstone of human nature and progress. However, according to Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, these tendencies have created different dimensions of religion; the rational and non-rational, with the latter often times overlooked. The most significant difference between the rational and non-rational aspects of religion deal with their respective emphasis on reason and feeling. Rudolph Otto prioritizes the non-rational as offering a truer understanding of religion because he claims the core of all religious life revolves around experiences and feeling, not simply rational thought.
Faith is a relative concept to many people. Whether they see it as simply an action to participate in or a way of life, it dictates what they do. Through various literary devices, Meditation 17 by John Donne, How I Found Religion at a Baseball Game by Robert Fink, and An American Childhood by Annie Dillard all effect the reader and makes them think deeply about what the author is saying while utilizing various methods to do so. One similar aspect of the three essays is the author’s idea and opinion of God. Their views of God and their faith may have been different, but the main idea and concept of God remains the same.
Moreover, this concept constitutes the base for defining the four stages in the knowledge creation process: socialization; the process that transfers tacit knowledge from one person to tacit knowledge in another person, externalization; the process for making tacit knowledge explicit among individuals within a group, combination; the knowledge transfer once knowledge is explicit, finally, internalization; the process of understanding and absorbing explicit knowledge into tacit knowledge held by the individual (Googlecom, 2018). So, for the sake of this investigation, it shall focus on whether in the initial stage: socialization, both consensus and disagreements are required for robust
In all learning aspects of my life, I live by the principle that the exchange of knowledge insinuates a mutual growth. As people assist each other in developing personal experiences, they both growth in the
According to Buchak, common every day faith statements and religious faith statements share the same attributes. Such attributes include “a relationship between the agent and a particular proposition, between the
My name is Allaa Sayf; I am a senior at George Mason University majoring in Global Affairs with a concentration in Management and Economics and a minor in business. Coming from a background were Islam was deeply influenced in my daily life, I never truly appreciated it till I began to search for my purpose in this world. My journey to purpose ultimately led me to learn more about this faith. This expedition began in high school and has steered me to be heavily involved with my community both locally and nationally. Islam is a complete religion and it does not limit the acquisition of knowledge into the only the field of religion.
In the world today, the spread of information and data are key to societal development. Without this free flow of knowledge, technological and medical developments would never occur. Political movements and protests would never succeed. Democracy wouldn’t exist. Everything good in the world can be traced to the trading of ideas between people.
The Human Race has always felt in need for having consensus and disagreement in what concerns to knowledge. “Robust” knowledge itself can be defined as a type of ability that allows humans to apply it in their own world of things and at the same time be able to make use of it. The Greeks referred to this type of knowledge as techne. This essay will focus on the knowledge requirements and how different areas of knowledge rely on both consensus and disagreement to achieve a robust knowledge. History and Arts both in general need so much consensus as disagreement, to create the common goal of achieving what is call a higher level knowledge.
The fundamental foundation to any world religion is to understand their belief
Defining the knowledge was one of the major aims for most of the philosophers who left some marks on the history of philosophy from antiquity to contemporary times. Some like sceptics have said that it is impossible to define it and they have questioned also its existence. They have started a debate about certainty and even possibility of the knowledge with such a position. However, there is a consensus on the content of it by the majority except for the sceptic point of view of course. Generally, there must be a belief in its ground and that belief must be true but obviously, this is not enough to form it.
Because of this fact, knowledge can be seen as a vital quality to
Furthermore, another example of faith playing a role in deciding if knowledge we acquire have purpose and meaning in our personal lives is the creation of the universe. For people, who put their faith into believing in God, it is shared knowledge that God is the creator of everything. In Genesis 1:1 verse 1 states, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surfaces of the water.”
More often than not, the knowledge that we pursue has been given to us by another knower, especially in areas of knowledge like history; in this case the previous knowers perspective also shapes our pursuit of knowledge. Thus, in areas of knowledge where shared knowledge is pivotal we draw upon a shared perspective, not just that of the individual knower. Due to perspective affecting knowledge in such a magnitude of ways, it is essential in all areas of knowledge. Through exploring the pursuit of knowledge in three different areas of knowledge: the arts, history and the natural sciences, it becomes apparent, that although to different extents, perspective is essential in shaping each. The Arts is considered a subjective area of knowledge and thus meaning is derived heavily through the perspective