For my class I had to pick 2 chapters that interested me the most, I chose The Knowledge of the World Around Us & Why Should We Be Moral.
I chose Why Should We Be Moral? because of it's connections to religion and KOTWAU. I come from a pretty religious family and went to a catholic school from day-care to 8th Grade, so I know they are directly connected. Morality comes from religion, how you act reflects your beliefs. If you are very religious you're going to know whats right and wrong and live a "clean" lifestyle. Meaning, no cursing & going to church regularly for example. You believe your actions here lead to a place up there or down there. If you live how you're God has taught you then you will go to heaven, if you don't you'll go to hell or wherever you believe you'll go. I'm Catholic and personally we aren't looking too hot in the morality scoreboard, we speak out against gay marriage while Catholic Priests are touching little boys, we've got enough problems of our own, don't need to be getting into everyone else's issues just yet. I hope by reading this chapter it will show me other religious morals and hopefully strengthen my beliefs cause right now they're not too good.
I also chose Knowledge of the world around us. I chose this becasue the world is a big place, how do we know so much about it? How did we learn so much about it, this also reflects religon because how you view whats around you can be understood through the teaches of your God or higher power. What ideas cause us to be the way we are, is it the almight dollar. Money makes the world go round so I guess the richer you are the more knowledgeable you are. So if money teaches us what have we learned. What I mean is you have to spend to get, wehter that be a private school education or a self-find journey like Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) went on to Alaska. He felt that the only way to gain knowledge was to leave, I won't go that far but taking this class should help me find where I'm going.
2 comments:
I agree with what you say about growing up in a christian family and know the difference between right and wrong. the question that's always been in the back of my mind is why do we just assume that what we are told is the truth about what is right and what is wrong?
I don't know if i agree that with more money you gain more knowledge. I do agree that more money can fund any quest to gain knowledge you can imagine. so it is vicariously true that with more money you have more knowledge.
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