RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2011-2012 Full Name Edrich Ty 4G Section LC#

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Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your ndings (even if tentative!) about your theories of knowledge. Domains Item #s YOUR world view Brief Reason + Remarks Natural Science Social Science 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 Evaluativist Evaluativist
Some theories and beliefs are closer to the truth/ more elegant than others Some theories are able to explain and predict behavior more closely and accurately IN SPECIFIC SITUATIONS Some interpretations are better supported than others because of criteria

Art Morality

3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11

Evaluativist Evaluativist

There are standards that should be followed and people should agree on something. All religions are correct in a way....

Religion

2, 13, 15

Relativist

Part Two: Ways of Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rate them from 1 to 10 according to importance, with 10 as VERY IMPORTANT. If there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception 8 5 8 5 7 Reason 7 8 4 7 3 Language 6 7 7 3 6 Emotion 4 5 8 6 8 Others?

Part Three: AUTHORITY and/or EVIDENCE 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 Natural Science % AUTHORITY 95 % EVIDENCE 5 100% Brief Reason + Remarks Most of the things people know in modern science comes from the really specialized experts who do complex experiments and publish their ndings in journals Similar to natural science, however the things this AoK studies has a lot to do with human behavior people can see every day. Art is mostly subjective and most interpretations come from the person itself and not some art connoisseur Most things that we dene as moral is really based on the law that experts have made, but there are some exceptions. For me, almost everything I know about religion just comes from what people tell me and what I read in the Bible, and not a lot comes from my own experiences.

Social Science

70

30

100%

Art

10

90

100%

Morality

60

40

100%

Religion

90

10

100%

Some learnings, comments, connections...

The reliance on authority and evidence vary from domain to domain. Some domains require a lot of input and guidance from gures of authority to gain the correct knowledge.