The Theory of Knowledge—a core element of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme—is a course in epistemology and practical philosophy. By examining short texts (including but not limited to local and world issues, philosophy, history and its perspectives, and scientific research) and the knowledge issues they contain and inspire, you will gain the skills necessary to analyze knowledge claims, their underlying assumptions, and their implications.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
What if they held a blog party and nobody posted?
We've begun to define the course together and as your last posts show, you have a strong grasp of the ways we are thinking and approaching both issues and knowledge. For Thursday morning, let's all take Jane's advice: post a question that you would like us to tackle together. Delve into your bags of thinky awesomeness and pull out a stumper. We'll chew on some of them together on Thursday and use that process as a way of beginning our relationship with formal logic.
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If God concocted nature, is nature natural in the sense that it was invented and that it was invented by a supernatural power?
ReplyDeleteWhat is our role as human beings in the universe? To what extent does our existence influence the whole universe?
ReplyDeleteWhere does right and wrong come from? How do we categorize actions as being right or wrong?
ReplyDeleteAre we who we are because we were born this way or because we became this way?
ReplyDeleteIs there a power greater that human power?
ReplyDeleteWhat does it mean to be afraid, to fear something or to be scared? On Halloween people dress up and "scare" people and many go through a haunted house and watch "scary" movies. Is that type of being "scared" the same as the "fear" one may have when they are about to sky dive? Or when you say no to something that a coach tells you you can do but you refuse anyway because you are "scared" or "afraid" to try? Are all types of being "afraid", to fear something or to be scared?
ReplyDeleteIs there such a thing as truth or is there only perspective?
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