RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2011-2012 Full Name Kenrik Ng 4G Section 9 LC#

Note: This is your digital worksheet. You will nd the instructions for todays module here. Perform the requested tasks using this Pages le. In other words, make it your own. Thank you!

Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your ndings (even if tentative!) about your theories of knowledge. 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 world view Evaluativist Relativist Evaluativist Relativist Relativist Brief Reason + Remarks Either reason could have caused. Only one thing causes. It depends on the person viewing the work. It depends on the situation Only one is possible.

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. If there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception 5 7 10 4 3 Reason 10 6 3 4 3 Language 3 9 9 4 6 Emotion 3 6 10 4 6 intuition intuition bias Others?

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%. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art % AUTHORITY 10% 50% 20% % EVIDENCE 90% 50% 80% 100% 100% 100% Brief Reason + Remarks concrete evidences are enough proof for me. split decision between, but will only choose one side 100%. Depends on what the audience thinks is being presented to like social science, both are correct, but none more correct than other, because of peoples different perspectives. Religion almost has no evidence (miracles aside) but a lot of people still believe in Catholicism.

Morality

50%

50%

100%

Religion

95%

5%

100%

Some learnings, comments, connections... *I was absent, but I will try to come up with something.* One of our TOK essay titles is When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing? I believe this has a lot of relation to our topic right now in CLE. A lot of claims are appealing to our own beliefs and intuitions, though they may be wrong. For example in religion, Catholicism has no evidence whatsoever. Nevertheless many people still believe in it probably because of the stories and the Bible. Sometimes, even if facts are present, I think that intuitive belief still bests those facts even though our beliefs may be different or even contradict the facts. Which is why we sometimes have to discard some of our own beliefs and rely on the facts and evidences present.