To have knowledge is to have power, and by having power you must know all. Most knowledge can lead to many advancements in our world, but the most important knowledge is the information that improves the quality of life. The comprehension of religion can set the standard of health, comfort, and happiness. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato explains to us how to access knowledge and how it can benefit our lives. Something like religion could improve the quality of life. Religion is a cultural system that follows certain behaviors and practices some of which contain a lot of knowledge. Knowing about religion and their practices can really change people's outlook on their lives and put many things into to perspective. I believe religion can
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The more you know the more successful you can be in your careers and life, which starts with knowledge. Although we cannot know the future religion is something that people base their beliefs off of which could be where their knowledge is coming from. Now religion can have some loopholes when it comes to knowledge and what is real, but knowledge comes from a past experience or lessons which can be found in religion. Although religion is very broad and some beliefs can help more than others, but many people turn to religion for the sake of their souls and their well-being. Religion can lead you to improve or maintain a good healthy life. Plato believed that knowledge must be justified, true and believable. Plato claimed that information gained through the senses is no more than opinion and that, in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through philosophical reasoning. In The Allegory of the Cave there were three prisoners who sat and watched shadows on the wall all day. The prisoners ” have never managed, whether on their own or with the help of others, to see anything besides the shadows that are projected on the wall opposite them by the glow of the fire”(pg.2) and only believe in these figures shown to them because it is
The more you know the more successful you can be in your careers and life, which starts with knowledge. Although we cannot know the future religion is something that people base their beliefs off of which could be where their knowledge is coming from. Now religion can have some loopholes when it comes to knowledge and what is real, but knowledge comes from a past experience or lessons which can be found in religion. Although religion is very broad and some beliefs can help more than others, but many people turn to religion for the sake of their souls and their well-being. Religion can lead you to improve or maintain a good healthy life. Plato believed that knowledge must be justified, true and believable. Plato claimed that information gained through the senses is no more than opinion and that, in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through philosophical reasoning. In The Allegory of the Cave there were three prisoners who sat and watched shadows on the wall all day. The prisoners ” have never managed, whether on their own or with the help of others, to see anything besides the shadows that are projected on the wall opposite them by the glow of the fire”(pg.2) and only believe in these figures shown to them because it is