Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Outline TOK
- Introduction
- To what extent are we able to reach a certainty for ourselves, without depending on the discoveries of others?
- How can knowledge be created?
- By ourselves (applying WOKs on our own)
- Using previous knowledge (depending on shared knowledge)
- The PT suggests the idea that...(justification of the kq)
- Concept of certainty: confidence, true
- 1st Approach
- Counter
Argument
- Starts from previous
knowledge of others
- If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Letter from Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke in 1676
- Book of Stephen Hawking in 2004 signalize the giants of Newton
- Nicolás Copérnico (1473-1543)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- Discussion
- Argument
- Starts from acquired ideas from our own
- The process of information using: Intuition, Imagination, Sense perception
- Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking---Fritz Machlup
- Example Darwing: he discovered part of the
theory of evolution making observations
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge---Khalil Gibran
- Critical Thinking: the capacity to analyze, understand and evaluate the information to create knowledge
- Conclusion
- Although we need the knowledge already discovered to carry on developing something new, it is our own personal effort what allow us to produce knowledge
- How can knowledge be created?
- 2nd Approach
- Counter Argument
- Empirism
- All our knowledge comes from our senses, experiences and perceptions, and our mind interprets them
- John Locke--- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- Aristoteles---abstraction---create concepts
- No certainty: Hume
- Discussion of the counter-argument: Kant
- Argument
- Rationalism
- Mistrust our senses and
perceptios
- Doubt
- Interpret
knowledge
- By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the
truth---Peter Abélard
- The capacity of the reason to discover the objective
truth
- Reason vs
experiences
- By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the
truth---Peter Abélard
- Innate ideas
- Plato, Decard and Galileo
- More recent example from maths
- Conclusion
- The knowledge can come from our senses, perceptions and experiences but on the other hand we can also mistrust them
- Conclusion
- We may be learned with another man´s learning, but we can only be wise with wisdom of our own---Michel de Montaigne
- If we lack some previous acquired ideas we may not understand the knowledge produced by others, so
the combination of both is the key that opens our mind
- TOK of Kant
- Synthesis between empirism and rationalism
- There is only knowledge when the sensitive experience is added to the rational elements of the knowledge
- "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to understanding, and ends with reason"
- To what extent are we able to reach a certainty
for ourselves, without depending on the
discoveries of others?