Essays on Knowledge Page 4

Explain Plato’s Form of the Good Plato held the belief that the world we perceive is not real and that the ordinary things we see are mere imperfect copies of the true essence behind them. He posited that every material object and abstract idea, like beauty, has an ideal version that exists beyond the earthly…

a) What is indigenous knowledge system? Indigenous knowledge refers to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. Indigenous knowledge system includes types of knowledge about traditional technologies of subsistence (e.g. tools, and techniques for hunting or agriculture), midwifery, ethno botany, and ecological knowledge, celestial navigation, ethno astrology. Difference between…

Cope, Kevin Lee. Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgement in the English Enlightenment. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990             Lee reflected on the epistemology of engagement in the English Enlightenment perspective by examining the role the system and system making played in the act of believing and in the author’s commitment to the…

Summary of “Grades and Money” by Steven Vogel When someone asks you why earning a higher grade in class is important to receive, your first response might be to help increase your grade point average (GPA). But why is a high GPA so coveted? Is it to get into a good post graduate school? But…

The contention that no one knowingly does evil is one of the most fundamental principles championed by Socrates. The very essence of this Socratic principle dwells on the assumption that if a man understands very well that such and such acts are wrong or result to evil, or such that if a man is indeed…

Heritage is our history, our different knowledge, the values and traditions that we have developed with a combination of genes and culture over time. Heritage, whether it be cultural, national, or just in our families is an endowment of legacies; but foremost, heritage is our history. It is responsible for how we came to be,…

When Harry Met Sally First impressions are not everything and in many cases our first impressions of someone are quite wrong. As humans we are rather quick at times dismiss someone and we never given them a second chance to prove our assumptions false. In the movie When Harry Met Sally, their first impressions of…

Midvvich population into facing the terrifying unknown because all of the alien babies had the power to control the minds of other and within the same gender they could talk with each other elepathically and share information that way. In the end, the main character, Gordon Zellaby lured the Children to a room, and bombed…

The Distinction of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Power “The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become                           a confessing animal.”-Michel Foucault, (1978)       History of Sexuality: IntroductionProbably the well-conceived reality in our current social structure is the concept of power. Particularly, Michel Foucault presented his own version for…

Knowledge and Wisdom only have two things in common, both requirea brain and are very hard to obtain. Although knowledge and wisdom seemalike, and are often used interchangeably, they are really very different. When a knowledgeable person enters a room, she tries not to makeherself too noticed, although she does want everyone to acknowledge thatshe…