RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2013-2014 Full Name Wilvyn Tantongco 4D Section LC#

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Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your findings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Rationalist? Domains Natural Science Item #s 1, 5, 14 YOUR Philo of K Absolutist Brief Reason + Remarks Im an absolutist in terms of the natural sciences because in the sciences, they find the on absolute fact for the things around us. And, by doing this, they settle only in a one answer, based mainly on facts, that are proven to be true. It is perspective based, therefore can have many answers. Art is very much based on your own likings about the piece of art, yet some may be generally nicer than others. It is perspective based, therefore can have many answers. For example, a certain act such as a lie, may be good for some, bad for others. Religion is very much not proven because we haven

Social Science Art

4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10

Evaluatist Evaluatist

Morality

6, 9, 11

Evaluatist

Religion

2, 13, 15

Evaluatist

Part Three: AUTHORITY and/or EVIDENCE/ARGUMENT When you justify claims, how much do you actually rely on External Authority and Direct Evidence for every domain? Assign a percentage to each one per domain (Just make an estimate, so NO decimal points--e.g., 25.2321%!). Make sure both total 100%.

Domains

% AUTHORITY

% EVIDENCE 50 /ARGUMENT
50

Brief Reason + Remarks

Equally based on the researcher and the evideces

Natural Science Social Science Art

50

100%

65 80

35 20

100% A factor would be the authority who says it. 100% For example, since Picasso is very famous in the field of art, people, as well as I, will be influenced into thinking that his works are very nice or even the best. 100% 100%
It is often based on what most people think of as moral, but there is a slight percentage (40) that will signify that you can have your own perspective towards morality. Very much influenced by the authority

Morality Religion
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60 85

40 15

Why do you think there is no OPINION in Part Three? There is no opinion column because opinion does not really matter a lot when an authority says a certain thing/fact, as well as your opinions would not matter in the evidence. I also believe that opinions does not really matter in the wide range of audience (unless it matches with the societys opinion towards it) if you go against them.

Some other learnings, comments, connections... Through this activity, I learned that without noticing it before, I am actually mostly an evaluatist already, which for me, is a good thing, base from my answers in the activity before. I also learned that it actually is hard to judge whether how many percentage of a certain influence matters for me. I think therefore, that the quantitative aspect of how much influence this or that thing matters to you, is not a valid way to actually gauge the influence, because it is mostly based on qualitative observations.

Part Two: Ways of Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rank them from 1 to 5 according to importance, with 1 as MOST IMPORTANT. If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception 5 5 5 5 1 5 5 3 5 3 Reason Language 4 4 3 4 5 Emotion 1 1 4 4 5 Others?