Theory of Knowledge Essay
TOK essay 3rd draft February 1, 2009
Topic:
“In expanding the field of our knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance” by Henry Miller. Is this true?
As people continue thinking and working all together this world will continue changing and escalating to something else. Evolution is accompanied by new innovating ways of thinking, working, solving and writing thus expanding our field of knowledge. From the early stages until the last stages of life we are introduced to many things that are new to us and because of them we form a constantly evolving perception of this world. We are exposed to many ideas and cultures that lead us to question our previous beliefs; we have an innate need to understand and this quest for knowledge reveals that we don’t really know many things.
People as human beings have the tendency to use their critical thinking abilities and their ethical values and beliefs to seek a new way of living and understanding. A person does not always accept things and facts as they ’appear to be’ but tries to develop rational theories that explain how things ‘really are.’ He constantly tries to understand and interpret the world and himself. There are so many questions we have when we look at our world and perceive the complexities of it, especially when our life evolves around and depends on it. In our quest to understand, we have developed sciences natural and social, studies that try to analyze, explain and predict our behavior, our world and our universe; we have developed technologies through which we are constantly running and trying to simplify and control things and events in our life. We try to explain the complicated phenomena of our feelings and emotions through studies in ethics, religion, and philosophy etc, so we are able to derive some knowledge out of it and solve difficulties concerning them to make our lives easier. But life is not easy to understand. Many
Topic:
“In expanding the field of our knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance” by Henry Miller. Is this true?
As people continue thinking and working all together this world will continue changing and escalating to something else. Evolution is accompanied by new innovating ways of thinking, working, solving and writing thus expanding our field of knowledge. From the early stages until the last stages of life we are introduced to many things that are new to us and because of them we form a constantly evolving perception of this world. We are exposed to many ideas and cultures that lead us to question our previous beliefs; we have an innate need to understand and this quest for knowledge reveals that we don’t really know many things.
People as human beings have the tendency to use their critical thinking abilities and their ethical values and beliefs to seek a new way of living and understanding. A person does not always accept things and facts as they ’appear to be’ but tries to develop rational theories that explain how things ‘really are.’ He constantly tries to understand and interpret the world and himself. There are so many questions we have when we look at our world and perceive the complexities of it, especially when our life evolves around and depends on it. In our quest to understand, we have developed sciences natural and social, studies that try to analyze, explain and predict our behavior, our world and our universe; we have developed technologies through which we are constantly running and trying to simplify and control things and events in our life. We try to explain the complicated phenomena of our feelings and emotions through studies in ethics, religion, and philosophy etc, so we are able to derive some knowledge out of it and solve difficulties concerning them to make our lives easier. But life is not easy to understand. Many