RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2011-2012 Full Name Martin Ibasco 4G Section 2 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 Remarks Scientic evidence and methods may be more useful than another depending on the given situation. Same as natural sciences. This only applies to individuals. There may only be one perception of art for each individual. Ethics depend on the given context and purpose of the situation. This domain is mostly a gray area so we do not really know what happens here until we experience it ourselves.

Natural Science

1, 5 ,14

Evaluativist

Social Science Art

4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10

Evaluativist Absolutist

Ethics

6, 9, 11

Evaluativist

Religion

2, 3, 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. Sense If there are other ways of knowing/judging,Language column and specify. use the last Emotion Domains Reason Others? Perception Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion 7 8 8 3 3 8 6 3 9 4 6 6 3 3 7 1 4 9 8 7

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%. % AUTHORITY 30% 40% % EVIDENCE 70% 60% 100% 100%

Domains Natural Science Social Science

Brief Reason + Remarks

Science is thoroughly based on evidence. Since this is a science, evidence must play a greater role but is also affected by authority. Art is hard to justify through evidence and authority alone. There must be a correlation to each other. Morality is mostly based on individual concepts with a slight mix of evidence as to why he/she is doing an action. Religion is mostly based on authority rather than evidence because there is not scientic proof that backs up religion claims.

Art

50%

50%

100%

Morality

70%

30%

100%

Religion

90%

10%

100%

Some learnings, comments, connections... In using and learning knowledge, we must strive to be more of an evaluative thinker and weigh our options because situations always depend and therefore requires analytical thinking rather than being closed minded.