Shared Knowledge Research Paper

Knowledge are the “Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.” Knowledge can be divided into two parts, which are personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Shared knowledge is acquired through media such as the internet, books or television or through another person such as a teacher or professor, hence shared knowledge is the knowledge a group of people share. Whereas personal knowledge is obtained through personal experiences of an individual such as sense perception or emotions, thus it is most commonly harder to share with other people. The first area of knowledge being explored will be history through investigating “To what extent does shared knowledge …show more content…
When looking at Religious knowledge systems almost all of the worlds most common religions have a sacred text around which the Religion operates. As stated in most of the sacred text there is only one true religion and that religions god or gods are the only one to whom one should be faithful. Now as the sacred text are a major sources besides memory and language to pass to ideals, of the specific religion, on to the following generation it is considered to be shared knowledge. Hence, religion is based on shared knowledge, which then shapes the personal knowledge, because all the people who are faithful to a religion follow the same moral guidelines and religious guidelines. When looking back in the history of Religion one can see that almost all religious conflicts where essentially cause by shared knowledge of Religion shaping the personal knowledge. If we look at the Religious Yugoslavia - Kosovo conflict were orthodox Christians opposed Muslims one can see that the personal knowledge has been shaped in such a way that Serbians don’t tolerate Albanians and vice versa. "In the Balkans, religious identification became part of national identity, as expressed through language and the communication of the national myth. Thus, being Orthodox is part of being Serbian." The Balkan states have a close connection between the government and the religion, which is Christian in Serbia and Islamic in Albania. Therefore, the government represents the guidelines of the religions through governmental laws. Thus the shared knowledge of the religious knowledge systems of Islam and Christianity is enforced through laws. So, the citizens of either Serbia are exposed to the shared knowledge that the Islamic religion is wrong and vice verse. Through the government aggressively enforcing the shared knowledge about the opposing religion, the personal knowledge of individuals towards the