Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"The whole point of knowledge
is to produce both meaning and
purpose in our personal lives".
- RLS
- Shintoism - rebuilding
of temple
- Getting rid of empirical
evidence (which provides
knowledge) and yet
produces meaning in
personal lives
- Without the knowledge of
destroying and rebuilding the
temple they would not be able
to gain their meaning of rebirth.
Need the knowledge from the
empirical evidence -symbolic
- people don't necessarily need knowledge to
provide their own meaning and purpose in
their lives - existence or religion which is
based on the lack of sense perception
- However the knowledge passed down serves to
provide the meaning and purpose
- Aesthetic movement
(art and literature)
- Knowledge which is based
upon the lack of meaning
- yet provoked social revolution
in terms of morality
- Oscar Wilde
- The picture of Dorian Grey
- Explored idea of living purely
for the aesthetic - without
meaning and the downfall of
this. Result of aesthetic movement
- The importance of being
Ernest
- Seems trivial but
expressed political and
social ideas
- Both contain aesthetic
structure but provide
meaning which can be
applied to personal lives -
allegory
- the lack of meaning allowed
social development in morality;
lead to people gaining meaning
of hedonism in personal lives
and warned against it
- WOKs
- Faith
- Language
- sense perception
- AOKS
- Religion
- Shintoism
- Shinto temple as
sense experience
- Faith as a developing
knowledge and gaining
meaning from
knowledge
- Art
- Aesthetic movement in art
and literature
- language used in the
aesthetic literature
movement
- Knowledge questions
- To what extent can knowledge be
valued/ have a point without
providing meaning or purpose?
- To what extent can the lack of
knowledge provide further
meaning and purpose in a
persons personal life?
- To what extent can knowledge exist without
providing meaning? Is there such a thing?
- Assumptions
- Knowledge is pointless without
providing meaning or purpose
- You can only gain meaning and
purpose using knowledge
- Knowledge is pointless without
providing meaning and purpose
- Definitions
- meaning : how your
paradigm is impacted by
the knowledge
- Purpose; gives you an
emotional or tangible aim
- Produce; causes or
creates
- Implications
- Agree
- then without knowledge can we still gain
meaning and purpose - huge implications for
those with false knowledge e.g. north Korea
dictatorship. Meaning and purpose
manipulated? Free will and access to
information
- Religious knowledge - more valuable than e.g.
scientific knowledge because of the meaning and
purpose in peoples lives? Mean that religion is
more important than science?
- Disagree
- could mean that religion loses validity:
if knowledge doesn't have to does that
mean we alienate ourselves? could
hold implications in terms of morality?
no meaning - robotic
- Moral implications provided by the
picture of dorian grey - hedonistic society?
Can society function like this? do we need
the meaning in order to make sense and
function within the world?
- Knowers perspective
- as an agnostic - the idea of
religion vs science in which is
more valuable: impact on
medicine
- In IB English - reading literature; for its
own enjoyment? Or to analyse the political
and social context behind it? could argue
we need meaning and the lack of meaning
- appreciation of English
aesthetic literature - yet no
meaning. Shows that it is
valued to an extent