How do i know what i know?
According to the famous philosopher Locke we all start with a blank tablet and as we go on it is written by our experience. I accordingly agree with this because how can you actually know something without you experiencing it? This way if you experience something you can actually have evidence to back it up? Are you willing to depend on someone else?
But what if we never experience certain things. Are we never going to know what that experience is? Well in this case Kant describes we can use the past to relate to things we have not experienced. Once again i strongly agree. However not only experience determines what we know but how one is raised is a strong influencing factor. If you are raised with manners then you will have more humanity and compassion then compared to those who were not.
Your surrondings also is a major influencing. People raised in cities wouldnt know how to live out in the country. They wouldnt possibly know how to maintain a farm or not being accessible to technology. And if you are raised with luxuries how will you know the actual value of something? Different surrondings run on different actions so all our knowledge varies.
Overall the major influencin factor on our knowledge is experience.
Is it really experience or is it biological?
ReplyDeleteVery good question, are we never going to know what an experience is if we won't experience it? I dont know the answer to that but it is an excellent question whose answers will most definitely vary from person to person.
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