The subject
in this sense are quite new for me and I haven’t seen knowledge in this view
before, but I realised that it can be seen in different angles and it let me
seen knowledge in a new way. The knowledge actually has a wider background that
I thought. Immanuel Kant is writing “Critique of Pure Reason”, about how
critique is pointed to knowledge in different categories. Can we view the
metaphysics as a priori when the evidence doesn’t exist? I understand the text
as he want us to use the metaphysics and create the objects in advance, to
follow us and our cognition, instead of interpret the existence of the object
through the empirical science. If we look at the world around us from a a priori point of view, instead of
starting with ourselves. Maybe we would understand the science in a different
way and thus it would create a larger and broader knowledge.
Sometimes we
assume certain things based on our experiences, therefore can the knowledge
also include the metaphysics, where we can’t know the adoption or the
contradiction. The metaphysics and whether it can be categorized as knowledge
has been given critiques and I wonder why we don’t criticize the dogmatism –
hold to a particular thesis or to have a perception of something without
evidence.
The dialogue
between Socrates, Theodorus and Theaetetus are about the knowledge seen in
three definitions. They describe how we see and hear though our eyes and ears
instead of with them. I perceived the interpretation as how we though earlier
experiences have created perceptions which now are hard to change. I think it’s
about whether we can see through things when our feelings and experiences
already exist. I would say that our experiences mirroring through us and build
a frame of perspectives of how we creates knowledge. The experiences are contributed
to our way of learning new knowledge. He argues that he would like to use the
rationalism and learn from our sense and our mind.
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SvaraRaderaHey Kicki!
SvaraRaderaI totally agree with you, knowledge has so many more angles then I could ever imagine. I think that it is interesting how we could gain knowledge about the metaphysical questions, if the evidence does not exist. That is the question Kant tries to answer. For me, the answer it's a bit vague and I had a hard time thinking from a philosophical perspective. I know that knowledge can come from experience, but I have never thought about it as, what we know by experience, can we not prove the opposite of, and that is metaphysics in itself.
In Plato's text, you write that we see through our eyes, when the feelings and experience already exists. My interpretation was that the eye is just a tool to gain knowledge, but you do not gain knowledge until the things you see are categorized in your brain, haha I dont know if it makes any sense.. But my interpretations has changed a bit during the whole theme I think ;) I think it is really interesting how we can interpret it in our own ways. And maybe that is from our earlier experiences? :)
I think that your reflection was interesting to read, and it gave me some new perspectives on knowledge. So, thank you for that! :)
Have a great day,
Hannah
Yes, it was exactly what I mean, the experiences contributes to the way of collect knowledge and prejudices, therefore its not surprising that we as humans get different points of views. Our backgrounds and the way we grew up on have shaped our aura and the way we learn and filter the “incoming data”.
RaderaHi,
SvaraRaderaI think that you have a lot of interesting reflections and asks good questions in your text.
You write that one of the things you have learnt this week is that "knowledge actually has a wider background that I thought". What I think you mean with this is that the answer to what knowledge is has been discussed for such a long time. I think it is quite amazing that Socrates was discussing the concept of knowledge over two thousand years ago. The same question that we are discussing in this course. The way we see things today can be the same or different as earlier generations have seen it, this depends on if a paradigm shift has taken place or not.
Keep up the good work!
Charlotte
I still think the concept of knowledge is just a word, with a definition. I think it’s difficult to just accept the knowledge as something broad and diffuse. But I’m agreeing with you charlotte, it’s interesting that a concept can be discussed for hundreds of years except any success and agrees. Unfortunately I think it’s not the end yet. It would be interesting to see into the future to investigate weather they still discuss the concept in hundreds of years.
Radera