Exploring Reason as a Way of Knowing
Reason, a fundamental way of understanding the world, involves logic, comparison, judgment, and experience. This unit delves into how reason impacts individuals and societies, the varying quality levels of reasoning, and the relevance of reason in different contexts. Discussions center on the importance of reason, its impact on knowledge acquisition, and scenarios where reason excels or is surpassed by emotions and faith.
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Reason as a Way of Knowing SS8 2014-2015 Unit 1: How do we know?
What is reason? Reason is trying to make sense of the world using logic, rationality, comparison, judgement, and experience.
Reason istrying to make sense of the world using logic, rationality, comparison, judgement, and experience. Logic formal reasoning, or reasoning that follows strict rules. Rationality based on facts and reason, not emotions or Comparison looking for patterns (consistencies, similarities) and inconsistencies (differences). Judgement forming an opinion or decision from the presented circumstances. Experience the process of personally observing, encountering or undergoing something. feelings.
Discussion | 1 1. What would affect our ability to reason? 1. Can there be different quality-levels of reason? 1. How would reason help our ability to know/add to our knowledge about the world? 1. How does using reason impact you as an individual? 1. How does using reason impact a society/community? Reason is trying to make sense of the world using logic, rationality, comparison, judgement, and experience.
Discussion | 2 1. Why might you want to use reason, rather than using dreaming/feeling/remembering? 1. In what jobs or situations would you want to be surrounded by people who have an excellent ability to reason? 1. In what jobs or situations might you not need or want to depend on reason as much as emotion? Faith? Your senses? 1. If something (an idea, an argument, a belief) can t be supported by reason, is it weak, untrue or lesser in some way? 1. All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant Reason is trying to make sense of the world using logic, rationality, comparison, judgement, and experience.
