Influence of doubt in knowledge
Introduction
How does ethics influence certainty and doubt when acquiring knowledge about the authorities? Ethics can be defined as a way of understanding moral behavior because, by means. Descartes gives great importance to ethics because each person, in addition to thinking, lives day to day and needs to have moral criteria to act correctly and achieve happiness or fullness, as this is possible for human life.
Developing
In view of the fact that a universal ethic cannot be established, Descartes thought about establishing a provisional. In the first rule, he argues that the laws must.
Descartes affirms in the second that in the work you have to be as firm and resolved as possible, once a decision is made or an opinion has issued, you must continue with certainty even when it was doubtful. In the third rule it is affirmed that you have to try to overcome itself, rather than capital goods, as well as be aware of our own thoughts before the order of the world, because nothing is in our possession, except our ideas. What is the ethical limit to acquire knowledge? The progress reached by man drives him to behave in a particular way.
According to the occasion, the circumstance, the interest and objectives that it pursues, which necessarily leads, as Ayllón says, to "design a habitable world" in this way to know more defines the historical moment we live, is it good and at the same timeharmful to man? It depends on the use made on that knowledge;Sometimes it will be good and in others not so much. For example, all the knowledge acquired with the investigations of nuclear fusion allowed to develop procedures to fight cancer, however, it led to the nuclear bomb that killed millions of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The cognitive impact
The production of knowledge has been constant throughout the history of humanity, increasing in the twentieth and twenty -first century, in this way, there are always knowledge that replaces others. In addition, this knowledge has ceased to be owned by a small group as it was in ancient times where only privileged classes could aspire to learn;It can now be acquired by a large number of people, so this cognitive revolution has made possible the globalization of knowledge.
This current vision that has the human race of its reality, is it a product only of your interests or is there anything else that is so? For Bilbeny, "the so -called digital world, how could it be less, is the result of a media revolution, but also of new assignments for knowledge, which catches values and quickly releases others", with which the cognitive phenomenon does notIt is only framed in a technical-scientific advance, but also depends on the media.
Knowledge value
The value is a concept of wide dimension that is debated between subjectivity and objectivity;philosophically for subjectivists the value is created by man, but for objectivists values exist outside it. From the subjectivist perspective, Kant’s idealism assumes that the value is, above all, an idea, not part of the reason, depends on the ideas of the individual and, therefore, are not concrete, in other words, their estimate dependsof people, therefore, will depend on the desire, pleasure or interest of these.
Kant affirmed ‘we can feel good, this means, judging according to our impression of vital well -being, but we can never know if we are fine. The absence of the impression of being sick does not allow man to express that he is fine, but to say that he is apparently fine ’. Subjectivity has been studied understanding that the strictly human is the measure of all things, what is worth and what is not worth, and of the same scale of values, without support in external reality.
conclusion
In conclusion, people can acquire certain knowledge based on what they think is correct or the concept that surround them;However, the doubt can arrive and appear at any time and especially in any area in which they are making thinking if it is right or not, and beyond that it is likely to drive the fact of continuing until you look for the result you want, many times regardless of whether it is really correct, thus making some way or another project a new insecurity, and it is through this essay that we see the impact of people reflected after acquiring a knowledge.
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