To understanding something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?

Rotterdam International Secondary School

Name: Naowarat Makburee

Candidate number: 000627-015

Word count: 1,237 words

       From the past to the present, our own experience has accelerated rapidly in our life time, as we grow up and get older, because it happens to us all the time and it is always around us. Which, it is something that we have taught and guided by someone who we called parents or experienced people. For example, let’s say that we were young, like 5 years old, and don’t know about the danger of electricity, our parents warn us about the danger of some equipment or toys etc. As they taught us about what’s going to happen if we put our wet finger into the plug whole, we might get an electric shock and might die. We make a decision based on believe of someone who experienced. This is something which we call understanding and believe, which in our life time we has to lean on everyday, we do it regularly and it leads to experiences. Our world has separate continents, therefore, we have many knowledge and comprehension, and cultures are different, different knowledge, different belief, where it depends on the location, weather, and society etc. These all relate to experience in understanding something. Now we’ll be looking further on culture and experience needed to understand something, and is it impossible to have objective knowledge without understanding? In my opinion toward this topic, I believe that understanding and knowledge isn’t the same thing and understanding would mean something different to knowledge. So my thesis of this question would be showing the opposite between impossibility and possibility to have objective knowledge. In general, I would discuss more about the influence from our experience and culture, and relate to the possibility of having objective knowledge without them, notice that this thesis is tentative, its need to be proved by example and discuss as a student’s experienced perspective.

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     As we have to discuss the fact that we have objective knowledge with or without relying on experience and culture, these bring up two points of view, which is the impossibility and possibility of it. Start with impossible perspective, in which it has to be related with our own experience and culture; it passes along by communication from one generation to the next one. For example: Christmas celebration, where it’s now a tradition every year, where it has influenced by basic family or culture value, the whole families are together. It is traditional celebration, where young ...

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