What Philosophy Is; Clip 2 Video Lecture | Philosophy of Education: Introductory Course - Self Help Learning

now by contrast if we are more religious
right in our metaphysics religious
traditions typically do not emphasize
the census reasoning and science as the
most important or in some cases not
important that all in coming to know the
important truths about the world if we
are strongly religious right in our
metaphysics and we say that the the
world of religion the world of God is a
world completely other than the natural
physical world around us then more
nature based methods of coming to know
God are not going to be appropriate here
we might then say that really the best
kind of knowledge important kind of
knowledge that we need to come to
acquire this knowledge that comes
through revelation that revelation that
is communicated to particular prophets
through various kinds of mystical
experiences that they might have or it
might be the case that the revolutions
we think are available to all human
beings if they they use their their
cognitive capacities appropriately or it
might be the case that we believe that
the revelations are no longer ongoing
but rather come down to us in the forms
of traditions scriptural traditions or
institutional traditions and it might be
that we believe the important knowledge
and beliefs that we as human beings
should come to believe our articles of
faith and that we do not adopt them
because we have scientific or rational
evidence for them we might even adopt
them despite right rational evidence and
scientific data right to the to the
contrary
so there are long-standing debates in
philosophical circles over what counts
as knowledge and particularly on what we
take to be the most important knowledge
that humans should being should be
striving for what capacities they have
or how they should go about forming the
beliefs that they have on those most
important matters in life now education
right clearly the implications are huge
depending on what kind of an
epistemological approach we adopt here
do we think that there is something to
faith and they're so fundamentally
giving their students a large body of
beliefs that we want them to accept and
we were going to urge them when they
start asking things like why should I
believe this we want to urge them to
believe them as a
or faith do we believe that students
have mystical capacities that they can
experience various non rational insights
into the nature of a higher reality and
so do we think that an important thing
in our educational process is to develop
students mystical capacities or do we
think that really that's not the right
way to approach you pistil mala ji at
all instead if we really want to have
knowledge knowledge is something that
comes as a result of using your senses
using observation gathering data
reasoning our way through that data and
in the most complicated set cases doing
science and so if it's thermo logically
when we were teaching students not
simply what we want them to know but how
they they then come become to be
knowledgeable people themselves these
are the traits and capacities that we're
going to focus on rather than these sets
of capacities down here all right all of
these kinds of questions right put
together are the traditional subject
matter of philosophy and on my reading
philosophy philosophy has four primary
kinds of questions that we can say this
is a question of at what's real the
epistemological question fundamentally
is how do I know
human nature question Who am I and the
ethics question so what what's the point
what are the value implications of of
all of this well do I have come to have
an understanding of the world our selves
particularly our identity as says as
knowledgeable beings are our core
cognitive capacities and put them in the
service of living what we take to be the
best kind of life that is the subject
matter of philosophy