TOK ESSAY BlogDraft

This is somewhat my points got frm a website.
i will rephrase.
but i really dunno what else is there to add either than some examples and some philosophical thoughts throughout the century.
i'll go on thinking about it still tho...

Both statements are contradictory in the sense one aims to define truth as relative – cultural relativism whereas the other defines truth as objective – absolutism.

Relativism
-is the belief that what is true is what is accepted by one’s culture or community. If truth is determined by the cultural acceptance of the assertion as true, then the truth is generally accepted as true within the culture. A belief is considered to be true if it is widely believed to be true within the relevant culture.
-what makes an identifiable culture are the common beliefs shared by the people of that culture.
-what separate one culture from another are the differences between the common beliefs of the two cultures. For there to be two cultures, there must be two different sets of common beliefs shared by two different groups of people.
-since beliefs differ between cultures, as documented by cultural anthropology, ‘truths’ must necessarily differ between cultures.

HOWEVER

“Cultural Relativism is more widely maintained as a system of Ethics than as a treatment of truth and knowledge. In Ethics, Cultural Relativism maintains that what is ‘good’ and ‘right’ is defined by the common beliefs of the culture as to what ought to be considered ‘good’ and ‘right’”.

Absolutism
-branch of thought which claims that a statement is either absolutely true or absolutely false and therefore, nothing can be true for a culture or era and yet be false for another.
-establishes the criteria that determines whether or not some assertion is to be considered true and whatever the is, if it can be accepted universally.




blehtz...'tis hard man...haha, but i think the reflection is harder still - truth and knowledge. can die. =/

tmr is TRACK and FIELD MEET!!! TKK will prevail! 'KNOW YOUR HOUSE RULES!'
haha
...sigh, probably wont win anything again. but still, i will try my best and giv the winners a run for their money...haha. =)

pretty tired, will revise SOME stuff and go sleep. tmr got 800m!