Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Theory of Knowledge
What theory of knowledge do you agree with? Do you think Socrates theory that all knowledge is innate and that through reasoning we can access knowledge or John Locke's theory that the mind is a blank slate and we access knowledge through experience? Please tell me why you feel this way and use examples to support your reasoning.
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 on Friday!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571
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I believe what both Socrates and Locke have to say. First, I think we have a blank slate because if we did not, then we would come out of the womb walking and talking. So the theory for the “Blank Slate” method is still very valid, but I think that when your born, God has given you some knowledge. What Socrates talks about is probably a little bit closer to what I believe. Because of the moral code placed in us by God, we already know the “laws”, but we do not yet know when to use them. Like when you were a kid, and your parents said, “Don’t hit your sister, thats not nice”, we already know that is bad, but we needed to learn about it in a different way then just already knowing it.
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