More+Questions+on+Personal+vs.+Shared+Knowledge

Back to Home>>Back to Knowledge Here are some more questions that might help clarify your understanding of this essential questions. Use the comment box to post your ideas and build on the thoughts of your classmates.


 * Is it really possible to have knowledge of a culture in which we have not been raised?
 * Are those outside a particular religious tradition really capable of understanding its key ideas?
 * Does there exist a neutral position from which to make judgments about competing claims from different groups with different traditions and different interests?
 * To what extent are our familiar areas of knowledge embedded in a particular tradition or to what extent might they be bound to a particular culture?
 * Presented with the belief system of a community of knowers, how can we decide what we personally believe? How can we decide which beliefs we ought to check further? In the end does it just amount to a question of trust? If so, how can we decide who to trust, and on which issues?