Perspective has always been an important part of an individual’s identity. It reflects the difference in the knowledge people gain when faced with any situation, person, object or place, and is often influenced by the way people are born and raised. As a result, everyone is different due to their perspective in the present, formed by their perspective in the past. A knower’s perspective, on the other hand, is the opinion or stance the person adopts from previously gained knowledge. Due to the nature of birth and life in the world, there is no possibility of two people having identical births, education, cultural beliefs, and life style, and thus …show more content…
Perspective is merely the view an individual has, yet does not have an impact on the inherent existence of that knowledge. Even if people have different opinions and views on a certain object or subject, that object or subject exists as itself, and people would commonly come to the same conclusion when learning about it. For example, a young boy sees a stove and is curious about it. He touches the stove because he has a preference to physically rely on his sense perception, and burns himself. He learns that the stove is hot, and he should not touch it. However, another boy that has a preference for using reason to learn new knowledge would reach the same conclusion by simply deducing that since food is cooked on it, and food only cooks when there is a high temperature, the stove must be hot. This demonstrates how knowledge exists impartial to the perspective of people, and thus perspective is not essential to the pursuit of knowledge. It merely influences the knower in their advances in learning, but not mandatory for the education of the person itself. Perspective does not determine the capability of the individual to learn a certain concept or subject; it primarily changes how the individual will use the knowledge acquired. Since the knowledge isn’t inherently affected by the individual’s perspective, it is not essential for an individual gaining