RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

CLE 2013-2014 Full Name ! ! ! ! Carl Jan Ner Uy ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Section H4H ! ! ! LC# 1

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Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your ndings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Evaluativist? Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Item #s 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15 YOUR Philo of K
Absolutism Evaluativist Relativist Absolutism Evaluativist

Brief Reason + Remarks

it is proven One explanation is more right than the other. Both opinions can be right there is a definite way of knowing what is more moral Both are correct but one is more correct than the other.

Part Two: Ways of Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rank them from 1 to 5 according to importance, with 1 as MOST IMPORTANT. If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception
2

Reason

Language

Emotion

Others?

none

3 1 2 4

1 2 1 1

2 4 3 2

4 3 4 3

none none none none

Part Three: AUTHORITY and/or EVIDENCE/ARGUMENT 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%. Domains % % AUTHORITY EVIDENCE/
ARGUMENT 64% 65% 25% 35% 55% 36% 35% 75% 65% 45%

Brief Reason + Remarks

Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion

100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

The scientists, people in authority, are more believable than anyone with an argument. People who hold news have a much reliable source than a regular persons argument. Anyone without authority can give an impactful claim provided evidence. Authority does not matter much in knowing what is truly moral. The authority holds the answers to what the religion is such as the pope.

Why do you think there is no OPINION in Part Three?

Opinion is not part of the tabs because an opinion can already be considered an argument.

Some other learnings, comments, connections...

When more carefully though, I realized that there are huge differences between the different domains. For example, religion and morality can be considered similar when first read, but if one thinks about it further, he will realize the deeper context between the two.