RELIGIONAS AN AREAOF KNOWLEDGE2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2013-2014 Full Name Section LC#

Kashmir Roger A. Yap

H4C

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Note: This is your digital worksheet. You will find the instructions for todays module here. Perform the requested tasks using this Pages file. In other words, make it your own. Thank you!

Part One: YOUREpistemologicalWorldViews Summarize here your findings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Rationalist? Domains NaturalScience Social Science Art Morality Religion Item#s 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15 YOURPhiloof K Brief Reason+ Remarks
Critical thinking and reason should be the main thing to consider
It depends on interpretation; and how "plausible" an interpretation is. A work of art has different evaluations and interpretations, same reason as social science.

Rationalist
Relativist/Evaluationist
Relativist/Evaluationist

Relativist Relativist

No one's wrong with one's morality for it varies from person to person.
Same as morality; depends on the person practicing the religion.

Part Two: Waysof 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 Reason Language Emotion Others?

1 1 3 2 3

3 2 4 3 2

4 3 1 1 1 History

4 2 4 4

Part Three: AUTHORITYand/orEVIDENCE/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/ A
RGUMENT

Brief Reason+ Remarks

NaturalScience Social Science Art

Subjective and Objective

80% 60% 50% 20% 40%

20% 40% 50% 80% 60%

100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

If it was done by a respected authority Same reason as Natural Science.

Art can be interpreted in many different ways. Morality is knowing what's right from wrong; can be interpreted many diff. ways
Depends how one interprets religion as a whole.

Morality Religion

Whydo you thinkthereis no OPINIONin Part Three?

Someotherlearnings,comments,connections...

For part three, morality is both subjective and objective, as such there many different ways morality can be dened. There is no one "set" principles that constitute morality since it varies from person to person. As such, it is more of direct evidence rather than higher authority. As for religion, I made it 40-60 since it depends on how you interpret religion, however the Pope (for Catholics) is there to make sure that one's interpretation is not too far off (since religious extremists/fanatics are common and this aims to prevent that. Natural Sciences is naturally more on authority since experts in that eld know better than those who are not; however evidence is still considered important to check errors in their calculations and/or conjectures. Art can be interpreted many different ways as well, and it invokes emotion as evidenced by Pablo Picasso's "Guernica", a depiction of the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Social Sciences are at 60-40 since human behavior, psychology, etc. can be interpreted again in many different ways depending on the context and topic at hand. However, respected authority on the subject should carry greater weight than one's own since they are experts in that aforementioned eld, the same as natural sciences.