While researching and analyzing information, it is important to consider different perspectives from different sources and experts. However, one has to ask, how can two experts have two different viewpoints when presented with the same facts? For the purpose of this essay, an ‘expert’ will be defined as a person that has an abundant amount of knowledge about a specific subject area or skill and a ‘fact’ as a piece of information that is indisputable. Based on the indigenous knowledge system and religious knowledge system an expert is accustomed to, the way that they perceive knowledge can be altered specifically due to the role of emotion in each knowledge system.
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I myself am a Catholic, and I believe in one God, Jesus is the son of God, and the teachings in the Bible. I would consider myself to be an expert on catholicism because I have an abundant amount of knowledge on catholicism and the Bible, and I would consider leaders of the Catholic Church, such as Pope Francis, to also be experts of catholicism due to their abundant amount of information about catholicism. While I am not saying that I am equal to the pope and his devotion to God, I do know that we share common beliefs within our religious knowledge system. We each are devoted to our religion due to our faith that we have in God as well as our deep emotional connection to Him. Personally, I am emotionally connected to my beliefs because I am able to practice my religion with my family members, which is an emotional connection I have to my religion. My emotion is what causes me to have certain beliefs within my own religious knowledge system, and while I cannot speak for the Pope, it is evident that the Pope has a deep emotional connection to the Virgin Mary as evident by his actions. Redemptorist Fr. Sabatino Majorano who is a professor at Rome's Alphonsianum Institute, has noticed that Pope Francis has a "more personal, more intimate" relationship with Mary (Wooden and Catholic News Service). The Pope has been seen to kiss and touch the statue of the Virgin Mary, which is seen in the religious community as very emotional (Wooden and Catholic News Service). It is evident that the Pope has a strong emotional connection to catholicism, specifically through his devotion to the Virgin Mary, and thus, both the Pope and I use our emotional connection within our religious knowledge system to form our beliefs. Emotion has allowed these conclusions among experts to be drawn. It can then be concluded that experts from the same
Everyone on earth has something they believe in. Maybe it’s a god or maybe even science. No one knows exactly why we are here, but if we put our faith into something then that’s what we will believe. We all believe in different ways that we came to be on the earth and how our world was created. The Christian way and the Native American way are similar yet different, both good examples of what different people believe. , but there also some reasons why they are so different.
| The study of knowledge: What constitutes knowledge, the nature of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible
Religions have very distinct differences because every religion has something that another one does not. The differences can even cause conflicts between different religions even if they are in the same family. Religions also have similarities that can cause feuds to end if people use it in the right way. You can see these similarities and differences in Hinduism and Native American religions if you look at how they do their rituals, rites of passage, view of gods, view of holy book, afterlife, and the role of women.
This chapter deals with the essence of information, how one acquires it, what one does with it, and how one makes decisions based on the information at hand. This fact is so basic and important, yet one can take this for granted. Wrong judgments and decisions occur when one needs to make a decision
Indigenous religions exist in every climate around the world and exhibit a wide range of differences in their stories, language, customs, and views of the afterlife. Within indigenous communities, religion, social behavior, art, and music are so intertwined that their religion is a significant part of their culture and virtually inseparable from it. These religions originally developed and thrived in isolation from one another and are some of the earliest examples of religious practice and belief. The modern world; however, has taken its toll on these groups and many of their stories, customs, and beliefs have been lost to, or replaced by, those brought in as a result of popular culture and the missionary work of Christians and Muslims.
As charters for the exploration of the New World were granted more frequently, the exposure of Christianity to the Native Americans increased. There were many motivations for colonists to head over to the Americas, but none was more popular than the reason of religion. People were escaping oppression through a population valve to America either fleeing oppression as a Protestant or as a Catholic depending on which nation they were coming from. Over time the colonists began to oppress the natives by gradually eliminating their culture. As noted by Virginia Colony Promoter in the 1600’s, William Herbert, “Colonies degenerate assuredly when the colonists imitate and embrace the habits, customs, and practices of the natives. There is no better
For what it’s worth, when the first setters came to America, they would never have survived. The tribes that they came in contact with showed them how to farm, how to hunt and gave them land to live on. Despite the help that early Indians gave, the colonists began to take over their land and forced them to move thousands of miles away from their homelands. They also tried to make the Indians conform to English standards of dress, grooming, behavior, and religion. Although the other topics hold their own level of importance, religion is quite important to consider since it impacted the majority of Indian actions and customs.
With this lesson, we begin a new unit on epistemology, which is the philosophical study of knowledge claims. In this first lesson on epistemology, we begin by examining the question “What do we mean when we say we know something?” What exactly is knowledge? We will begin with a presentation that introduces the traditional definition of knowledge. Wood then discusses some of the basic issues raised in the study of epistemology and then presents an approach to epistemology that focuses on obtaining the intellectual virtues, a point we will elaborate on in the next lesson.
Bank of America Corporation, a multinational banking and financial services organization that is the second largest holding company in the entire United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank by capitalization. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the banks serves clients in more than 150 countries and has a business relationship with over 99 percent of U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 83 percent of the Fortune Global 400. As of 2010, the bank is the 5th largest company in the United States by total revenue, as well as the 2nd largest non-oil company in the United States, while Forbes listed it as the 3rd biggest company in the world. Its acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2008 made it the world's largest wealth management corporation. B of A holds about 13 percent of all bank deposits in the United States with a retail footprint that covers about 80 percent of the U.S. population or about 57 million consumers at over 6,000 banking centers making it one of the most powerful banking forces in the contemporary industry (Bank of America, 2011; The Global 2000; Fortune 500).
There are may religions in the world, but through out the different religions there are many crossovers and similarities. Mattie Stepanek said “It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now”. Religion itself means “a belief in and worship of a greater power” (dictionary.com). By people believing in any kind of religion, it means that similarities can start there. With so many religions having similarities, it might be hard to distinguish from certain religions from another. Religions like of African and Native Americans might not at first seem alike, but as you look deeper into their religions and see they have similarities. These similarities are attributed as beliefs, rituals, and history. Their growths and struggles might not have happened at the same time, but both religions are still celebrated today.
A perpetual conflict emanating throughout all mankind questions the significance of knowledge to human nature, regarding knowledge’s definition, acquisition, branches, and value. Major role models in the foundation of philosophy - specifically, in this essay, Plato and Aristotle - obsess over the significance of knowledge and its importance to and relationship with the development of human beings and their mindsets. Although Plato’s view on knowledge describes the internal predisposed essence of all Forms and the need for a superior being to extract them from the student, Aristotle’s outlook resides as more reliable and realistic due to his beliefs in the premise of knowledge in the sensation and perception, with continuing development in memory, experience, art and science, and, ultimately, true wisdom.
spirit is injured or insulted, it can retaliate. Human beings must therefore show that they
According to the globalist.com, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget states that the person reading this right now has a life worth roughly seven to eight million dollars. Other agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, have the number set at 9.1 million. It’s interesting to think on this number considering that some people will never come close to making or seeing this amount of money. Although, at the same time, studies have conducted that you as a human being are worth that much. So if we are worth so much, for example nine million, then an estimated 13,032,000,000 dollars in human lives have been wasted since 1976. This is the year that the death penalty was reinstated. This was a wrong move on the government’s part
Disagreement may aid the pursuit of knowledge in the natural and human sciences because disagreement leads to new discoveries. Disagreement is about gathering reliable knowledge as well as using this newfound knowledge, and occurs when a group fails to reach a consensus over the logic of an argument. Knowledge is composed of facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. Two areas of knowledge that are impacted by disagreement are human science and natural science. Human science is the study of human behavior and how humans gather information. Natural science is a branch of science that deals with the physical world. In order for a disagreement to occur, one must be familiar with the subject and have his or her own prediction that is different from the norm. Therefore, to advance knowledge in the areas of human and natural science, people must disagree. The roles of logic, reason, and emotion will be investigated to see how they are used to help gain new knowledge in both human and natural science.
Knowledge is defined to be facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education. There are two categories that fall under knowledge; personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Shared knowledge refers to what “we know because.” It can also be defined as communicated and constructed knowledge; within culture, social norms, and semiotics. Personal knowledge refers to “I know because.” An expanded definition of personal knowledge refers to personal experiences, values, and perceptions. Shared knowledge changes and evolves over time because of methods that are continuously shared. It is assembled by a group of people. Personal knowledge, on the other hand, depends crucially on the experiences of a particular individual. It is gained