TOK Prescribe Title – 1.”It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value”. To what extent do you agree with this statement?
The question: ”It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value”. To what extent do you agree with this statement?” is asking that only knowledge that is attained with some form of difficulty or struggle is the knowledge that is most valued. It is asking if knowledge that is gained with simplicity is not as appreciated compared to knowledge that is produced in a more complex method and there’s more hard work put into attaining the knowledge and that’s the knowledge that’s most cherished.
Knowledge questions to consider include, “what is meant by the production of knowledge”, “what the …show more content…
Ways of knowing that are considered simple or difficult are both present in each individual area of knowledge one area cannot be labeled as less valued compared to another. All areas of knowledge have different components that shape them and to devalue one over the other because its ways of knowing may be less ‘difficult’ compared to another would be very narrow-minded. Also by classifying some ways of knowing as difficult or simple would be narrow-minded as well because like previously mentioned difficulty is experienced in different ways. Reasoning may be easy for one person but using memory is harder for someone else. Because we can’t fully account that a certain methodology is more difficult than another any counter claim that may try to state that one way or one area is more complex would be absent-minded. They are not considering how a methodology can be seen as difficult or simple from perspective to perspective. One has to take into account how different processes can be difficult to others and if not only a certain selection of processes aren’t seen as difficult then we can’t say only knowledge produced with difficulty is valued. If everything can be considered difficult from person to person then we can’t say only things with difficulty is value because then everything could be
The question: ”It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value”. To what extent do you agree with this statement?” is asking that only knowledge that is attained with some form of difficulty or struggle is the knowledge that is most valued. It is asking if knowledge that is gained with simplicity is not as appreciated compared to knowledge that is produced in a more complex method and there’s more hard work put into attaining the knowledge and that’s the knowledge that’s most cherished.
Knowledge questions to consider include, “what is meant by the production of knowledge”, “what the …show more content…
Ways of knowing that are considered simple or difficult are both present in each individual area of knowledge one area cannot be labeled as less valued compared to another. All areas of knowledge have different components that shape them and to devalue one over the other because its ways of knowing may be less ‘difficult’ compared to another would be very narrow-minded. Also by classifying some ways of knowing as difficult or simple would be narrow-minded as well because like previously mentioned difficulty is experienced in different ways. Reasoning may be easy for one person but using memory is harder for someone else. Because we can’t fully account that a certain methodology is more difficult than another any counter claim that may try to state that one way or one area is more complex would be absent-minded. They are not considering how a methodology can be seen as difficult or simple from perspective to perspective. One has to take into account how different processes can be difficult to others and if not only a certain selection of processes aren’t seen as difficult then we can’t say only knowledge produced with difficulty is valued. If everything can be considered difficult from person to person then we can’t say only things with difficulty is value because then everything could be