Monday, March 9, 2009

seek knowledge

to get a knowledge should we seek for it or knowledge
develops whith in a period of timeunknowingly?
Posted by 14ir at 8:10 PM
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3 comments:

Julian H. Kitching said...

14ir,

This is an interesting question. If you will permit me to re-phrase it:

To what extent is the acquisition of knowledge a deliberate process?

Is this what you mean?

I think in order to answer this question you might think about different types of knowledge - for example, think about the lessons we had about capacity, propositional and acquaintance knowledge and the differences between them...

Alternatively, maybe sometimes we acquire knowledge that we didn't expect...

Lots of possibilities here - what do you think...?

March 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM
shadrack mensah said...

Hello 14ir,
Yes, so the kind of knowledge is dependent on whether we seek for it or it comes to us (Just to put it in your context)

It is possible to acquire knowledge that we did not expect and this could make us seek for further knowledge.

March 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
S. Kidane said...

“All men by nature desire to know,” said Aristotle. It is in our nature to know. We need knowledge to survive. For some kind of knowledge all we need to do is open our eyes and see the world around us. It is effortless. But there are other kinds of knowledge that we need to strive to acquire them. These usually involve a great deal of logical reasoning – and sometimes abstract reasoning. Whenever abstract reasoning is involved the brain often finds it a difficult task. May be that is why progress in science is so slow. Some think that it is a wonder that the human mind comprehends the atom and the far away galaxies at all because it has not evolved to understand them. We do not need these kinds of knowledge to survive in this world. So why did the brain evolve the ability to understand such esoteric knowledge? What would Darwin say about this?

March 12, 2009 at 8:28 AM

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