Knowledge And Shared Knowledge

According to the classical Greek philosopher, Plato, “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” What Plato means is that the basic traits of an individual must include throughout their lifetime are a craving and want of some sort of object, a feeling or passion for a particular idea, and an understanding of what is to come. Throughout history, the meaning of knowledge has had both a variety of changes and continuity in the way many philosophers would address its idea. In today’s age, understanding can be familiarized in being able to distinguish and recognize a particular thing or situation based off of experience with that particular idea. In the beginning of history, most philosophers believed knowledge

Galileo Galilei was a very influential and controversial astronomer, scientist, mathematician, teacher, and physicist. His life began in the sixteenth century and ended in the seventeenth, in which he penned several books that supported the Copernican theory of a heliocentric solar system. In the words of Drake S. (1957) “... the works of Galileo are well written, and throw light upon the origins of modern science…”(Pg. 2) Although Galileo was soon deemed a heretic by the Roman Catholic church, he continued diligently challenging Aristotelian thought and doctrine and expressing his support of the Copernican theory. As he continued to make discoveries that supported this theory, the church continued to label him as a heretic, and eventually

Society is viewed as the collective thoughts, ideals and ways of life held and maintained by a group of individuals. Often these beliefs and practices of different societies are the result of a shared perspective or shared knowledge. However, with different individual components formulating the basis for a society, there is question to whether the shared or collective cognition is able to shape the way individuals themselves process information. In understanding the impact of how a socially constructed knowledge system can shape the individual’s own knowledge, I will invoke the reasoning of two separate areas of knowledge, specifically the humans sciences and ethics, that deal heavily with the human experience.

Galileo Galilei was a teacher, astronomer, philosopher and physicist who is now referred to as “the Father of the Scientific Revolution.” “The scientific revolution refers to a period of time of great advancement in the sciences that challenged the traditional beliefs about mankind's place and relationship with the universe held by religious orders” (Bellis). Born in Pisa Italy on February 15, 1564 Galileo was the son of Vincenzo Galilei, musician and mathematician. He was the first of six children and began his education at the age of eight at the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa. Bringing a close connection to the Christian religion he became a lutenist. However, his father immediately removed him from the monastery and insisted that

This booked showed the world his skills in practical technological applications and experiments. Galileo made a hydrostatic balance for measuring small objects. Galileo gained even more recognition from this book. He then refined his theories on motion and falling objects. He developed the universal law of acceleration (all objects in the universe did this). Galileo expressed his support of Copernicus’s theory, which is that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. This challenged the doctrine of Aristotle and the established order set by the Catholic

In using the very general word ‘knowledge’ I find it useful to distinguish between two ideas

He was a strong Catholic Italian who was practicing physics, mathematics, and astronomy. Galileo started off for a religious career but soon became interested in mathematics. Galileo is known for many things other than supporting the Copernican Hypothesis. For one, he developed a better scientific method and he began basing evidence not only on theory but on empirical data. He began actually "performing" the experiments rather than merely theorizing. He was a good mathematician and scientist and made sure that his theories fit the evidence exactly. For several reasons, he believed that the Copernican theory was more credible than the Ptolemaic one. He was much stronger in his opinions than Copernicus and stated them to the public. He published his ideas in the widely read book, Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World, in 1632. The church tried him of heresy because they believed this went against the church and the scriptures. The Church told him that he had to recant all of his ideas if he wanted to avoid punishment. In the beginning, he held true to his convictions and fought the point that he was not acting in a heretical manner because he was not going against scripture. Galileo said that the Bible had not stated anything regarding science and that the sole purpose of the scriptures was salvation. In a letter he wrote to the Grand Duchess Christina, he said that: "since the Holy Ghost did not

In my Serbian culture, there is a common saying “A smart man learns from the mistakes of others, a stupid man, from his own”. In this culture, sharing knowledge from mistakes to books to recipes is considered the norm and all of the social interactions and relationships are built on and around the act and idea of sharing knowledge. Under similar context, Bhartrihari once said “Knowledge grows when shared”. Personal and shared knowledge influence one another and develop intellect of the society. They both correspond to the forms of the verb “to know”; personal knowledge corresponds to “I know”, while shared knowledge corresponds to “we know”. In this way, shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge, but in the same way, personal knowledge can influence shared knowledge. This led me to inquire: How do art and science influence our personal and shared knowledge belief systems?

I value shared knowledge for it has contributed to my own understanding of the world. Most of the things "I know"-personal knowledge- are my individual interpretation of what "we know"-shared knowledge. There is a strong link between shared knowledge and personal knowledge but the extent to which shared knowledge shapes personal knowledge differs across disciplines. This essay explores the areas of knowledge of the Humanities and the Arts, demonstrates that shared knowledge influences personal knowledge and then discusses the claim that shared and personal knowledge are actually inseparable and may as well be one and the same thing.

In this project, the philosophical issue is how do we acquire knowledge? Acquisition of knowledge is a culture that is very important in the day to day life of each individual. The world itself revolves around knowledge, it is through knowledge that we can get to grow as human beings either in or academics, careers and in life at general. Epistemology has been well explained by the well re-known philosophers such as David Hume and Rene Descartes. This paper focuses on a philosophical issue: how we acquire knowledge, the philosophers who explored and talked about it, the concerns available and our present view on the current issue.

There’s always a new theory, experiment, or work that can prove a new stance. With the progression of time, knowledge can sometimes be discarded. But what is knowledge? And what kind of factors can impact it which leads to it being discarded? Knowledge is information centered by a concept that conveys a message and can be acquired through learning or memory. Many different factors can have an effect on whether someone accepts information as knowledge or knowledgeable. The biggest impacts are biases. Some are not able to detect their own personal biases, which are influenced by culture, gender, race, religion, etc., and therefore can discard knowledge based on their experiences. Which brings me to another factor, experience is what can change the mind of a knower. It can influence him or her to accept or not accept information. Acceptance is connoted differently than from what it used to be; just because one accepts something, does not necessarily imply that they believe it. For example, I accept that many cultures around the world believe in arranged marriages; however, I do not consider it to be a morally acceptable act. Overall, perception can always be influenced. Today I say that being forced into marriage is wrong, the next day I could be doing the same with my own child. The point is that one will never be able to tell what they will consider to be knowledge. In this essay, the two areas of knowledge I will focus on, in agreement with the quote, “That which is

Our general cognize of the world is comes from three different types of knowledge, which are traditional knowledge, faith knowledge and science knowledge. It are brand new information that I When I first time saw these words which were brand new information for me, and I was expecting to learn more about the new things. In the class we watched videos that show different between two of each knowledge. After that we had a discussion about it. Professor asked us to classify knowledge in the video which help us to enhance our memory about these three different types of knowledge. I made notes while listening others discussion and it is a good way for me to accept new information quickly and I could memorize the example in order to make connection in our life. As this part end, I had learnt that in our life, the way we gain knowledge can be classified. Besides according to the classified we know that some of information has not be authorized

The source of one’s own knowledge, sense data, and various other means of gaining relevant

Personal knowledge and shared knowledge are two extremely different ways in which people obtain knowledge. Shared knowledge is defined as ‘a socio-cultural knowledge, broadly along the lines of a set of norms, values, signifiers and cultural mores’ and ‘personal knowledge comes from the local experience of an individual’ . From my own perspective I believe shared knowledge is obtained through collaborative work; knowing from others, and personal knowledge is obtained from a person’s own opinion; what I know. The role the two forms of knowledge; personal knowledge and shared knowledge, play in human sciences and mathematics exemplifies their importance in a person’s understanding of the world.

Knowledge contains “two total different ideas, which allows a dynamic balance to be maintained”: shared and personal. Personal knowledge benefits the individual who possesses it and is obtained through first-hand experience or observation. Shared knowledge, however, has the potential to benefit an entire population. The connection between personal knowledge and shared is an indivisible bond. One cannot separate something that is interwoven; this can be demonstrated in the example of a ladder. If separated, the ladder cannot exist as a ladder without its other half in the same way as before; the rungs would be too far apart and the pole would not be stable. Personal and shared knowledge share a similar quality which is best expressed using Yin-Yang