preview

What Is Personal Epistemology

Decent Essays

Personal Epistemology and Ethics:

Epistemology basically means the theory of knowledge and how we understand the

things that revolves around us. Human beings have their set of thinking and ethics and it varies

from each respective person. To me, my life decisions are the things that drives my morality

and my ethics in everyday life. To me, my understanding of the things that exist is the work

of God. He created this world for us human beings to thrive and flourish and in return to pray to

him to thank him.

For a philosopher such as Plato, he believed that we are imprisoning our souls in our

bodies and for our souls to return to the Realm of Forms, we have to accept the …show more content…

It is their own ethics and we

follow our own ethics. Even for the field of study that I am currently based in Mass

Communication, although we ourselves have our own set of ethics. However, due to mass

communications being part of the society now, we have to follow its guidelines in order to not

create problems in the social enterprise and the media market.

This is to ensure that people would not follow your own ethics and to some, it could

cause friction within society and also it may be going against others point of view or daily

ethics. The media world ensures its own use of its ethics, the world would be in total

eudemonia. There would not be problems and conflict. Aristotle's way of reaching the highest

goal was to identify its highest function. And that function is by understanding the media's

respective ethics.

That is the reason why people have to study the ways of the rational theory of mass

communications so that mistakes can be avoided in the future and if mistakes do happen, it will

not be repeated again. Both practical and theoretical theory have to wok hand in hand to

Get Access