TOK ESSAY
TOPIC NO. 8 - To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?
Experience and culture influnce your beliefs, which in turn effects the way you perceive things.
What may be 'correct' for someone of a particular culture, might seem wrong to someone from another culture.
But not all our ideas and reactions to a particular situation are influenced by our experience, on certain occassions we do use our objectve knowledge.
I'd like to give both view points i.e. For and Against the statement.
This statement is true to a certain extent - (give 2 egs.)
Justify your examples
In what context is it false?
1 comment:
hey this is just a random thought i got, but you could also mention that to understand something we not only rely on OUR OWN experience but also those of others that we hear through word-of-mouth. also, if you think about it, most of understanding comes from the discoveries of others as their are few thing that anre inborn or innate. therefore, what we consider to be objective knowledge(such as scientific findings) is also subjective in nature as it has been found by researchers and they could have altered the data due to experimenter effects. then again, this is just a passing thought. i think it would be very interesting how you prove that some knowledge is infact objective and i am waiting to see how you deal with this topic as it is very exciting.
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