If you are interested in a read, here is the Wikipedia site on the plan crash in the Andes Mountains we talked about in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Theory of Knowledge
If you are interested in a read, here is the Wikipedia site on the plan crash in the Andes Mountains we talked about in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571
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Most humans start out by coming out of the womb and crying for the first time. Is that your mind you may ask? No it is our in-stinks acting within us. John Locke theory makes the most sense when he says that "the mind is a blank slate" and "containing no innate knowledge". We was humans obtain knowledge but watching and becoming older. For example we can all say that God is real and within us just by miracles. But, with john locks's divine commands we can learn about these obligations by god reviling himself to us and discovering natural laws. he also says when time passes we dont have the same soul or body but the same consciousness. This is why i believe in John Locke's theory.
ReplyDeleteSocrates, Aristotle, Locke, and Darwin’s theories of mind all have meaningful insight into the human mind. We are not born with all knowledge like Socrates thought, but we are born with instincts that help define us as human beings. We are born Tabula Rasa, with a blank mind as Locke would have put it, and as we grow many of us will imitate others around us, specifically our parents, although behaviors that our parents no longer use cannot be taught to us; however, may be learned later in life due to numerous different events. Ultimately; however, the majority of our knowledge will come to us through observing and reasoning through what we observe, whether it be how to throw a ball, give a speech, or learn how to solve a math problem, we observe an action, try to imitate it, and then reason and how we could do it better if we do not succeed, thus of classical psychology, Aristotle was the most correct.
ReplyDeleteI agree mostly with Aristotle and John Locke's theories on knowledge. Mostly because I believe as children grow up they take on the actions and traits of the people around them, which is Aristotle's theory. For example if a child's parent has the tendency of being sarcastic then most likely the child will take on that quality as well. Also I believe, John Locke was correct in that, we learn through the different experiences we have in life. Like when we grow in our faith to God we start to see that we can rely on Him when we're in a time of need. We see that He watches out for us so we learn, through experience, to rely on Him.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the theories of knowledge John Locke and Socrates has meaningful apprehensions, but I believe in Socrates approach. Socrates believed human were born with knowledge, but accesses it through reasoning. For example, as babies no one had to teach us how to urinate and have bowel movement, because we were born with the knowledge! As Christians we "...grow in grace and knowledge in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," according to 2 Peter 3:18. We are all born with some knowledge of a creator (or God) we just have to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.
ReplyDeleteAll of these philosophers have reasonable theories of knowledge. I agree mostly with Aristotle's beliefs of knowledge. I believe we are born with instincts but not with knowledge. Babies have instincts because when they lay their hand on a hot stove, their first reaction is going to be to move it off the stove. On the other hand, they do not have knowledge when it comes to this same scene because if they did they would know that the stove has a red light warning them that the stove is hot so they wouldn't put their hand on there. I think children see their surroundings as normal and how they should also live there life which is the same as Aristotle's theory of gaining knowledge through observing. A child sees that every time you add soap and water to a plate it cleans it so later on in life when he sees his plate is dirty and wants to clean it he will add soap and water just as he saw the adult doing when they were still gaining knowledge. We really do need that role model in our life teaching us how to do things correctly like a mother or father showing us right from wrong. In this same way we can connect with God. He is always there to help us and sometimes we think we know how to do things with out learning the right way of doing things so sometimes it takes us hitting rock bottom to realizing our way isn't the wisest way. God is all-knowing and will always know what's best for us because if anybody has seen the most situations it'd be Him and He knows how to handle and how to react to any and every situation. He should be the one we look up to and observe and act out what he teaches us to be.
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