<p>TOK Lesson – Sept 27 and 29</p><p>Emotions and Knowing</p><p>Your task: 1. Find examples for the categories listed below that reflect how emotions are intertwined with the different areas of knowing and what we learn to believe is true, or not true.</p><p>2. Important note: In this assignment, assume accurate knowledge to be something that leads to truth as defined by a community of knowers. Tell us what community led you to think one way or another. These could be cultural communities, teachers, other authorities, texts, friends, family, language communities, religious, …and so on. </p><p>3. Also tell us what other factors were needed before you could know whether you were right or wrong. </p><p>I list some examples of what you might consider in a category: Category Examples of Emotional response Emotional response emotional response leading you to not leading you to trust, leading you to believe, nor to trust, or distrust your believe, or trust, in your response thus response but later your response thus leading you to question you find out you are leading you to believe your response, only to completely wrong, or your emotion is find out you should have judged wrong by reliable…accurate… believed it, it was in fact others! true. reliable, true, accurate…. Find examples of Find examples of Find examples of when when emotion when emotion has emotion hindered the hindered the creation aided you in creating creation of knowledge or of accurate knowledge that we when it led to creating knowledge based on accept to be true in situations that were your false emotional the following areas. contradictory, reaction to questionable… something. ambiguous. The Arts Sad painting Not sure about that That’s disgusting! It painting. should be banned. Stupid play Critically acclaimed, but Awesome movie… so why? what’s wrong with Disney? Good Music Dumb song but everyone Bad music, but who’s else seems to like it to judge? Natural Sciences I think I need to do Global warming is not Cold fusion will solve that experiment happening. It’s a bunch our energy needs! again. Something of bad science! about that mixture Consider Quantum was different than the weirdness. last time. Human Sciences A positive attitude I think I am (or they are) Sociopaths are scary. will help you live being abused in this longer relationship. No, I am being silly. Math I get sweaty palms Okay, I am just stupid and nervous when when it comes to math. learning new math. NO! I am not stupid, I am No matter how much just not that into it, and I practice, I can’t get so what if I’m not great it! at it. Ethics I don’t trust that I agree, justice should be I completely trust my person. I have a bad retributive; corruption friend, but they have feeling about them. I should be harshly been found guilty and think what they did penalized. are going to jail. How was wrong. Or, the Then you find out your is that possible? opposite, I would father is may go to trust that person, prison for fraud. they did the right But he’s a good man. thing. Isn’t he? History This event will lead to The causes of war are…. I can’t believe it! greater problems in These new our nation. documents from the archives shed new light on what we thought. The cause of this is clear now! This letter shows….</p>