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What is the relationship between the knower and what is known come under?
The link between the known and the knower that is allowed is that of the impinging of the known on the knower. This link is only one-way: the observer is influenced by but does not influence, the observed. Since the observer is inlluenced by but does not influence the observed, the known can be referred to on its own.
What is a knower in Tok?
In TOK you are invited to wonder and wander, to reflect upon knowledge you have gathered throughout the years and to analyse yourself as a knower. The whole course will be interspersed with such questions about knowledge.
Who is the knower in Buddhism?
Such indeed is the Blessed One, the knower of worlds. Among the nine qualities of the Buddha, the fifth describes the Buddha as lokavidū. The Buddha is respectfully known as lokavidū because he realized the nature of all the worlds and also the way to be free from all the worlds.
What do you think are the differences between the knower and the known?
” The knower is not the known ” has sometimes been taken to mean that the knower is not known ; hence the doctrine of the transcendental ego. Alternatively, the distinction is taken to imply that the knower can only be known as knowing, i.e., known in a différent way from things which are known as known.
What shapes your perspectives as a knower?
Your personal point of view or outlook is your perspective, which is shaped up by your contextual assumptions, language, culture, socio-economic position, historical background, and a couple of other meaningful ones. Do not shut yourself from considering others’ perspectives.
What is a knower gaze in education?
In knower code disciplines students must develop a gaze in order to recognise what is “authentic” to the discipline (Bernstein 1996, p. 164). The valued gaze, which is often tacit, provides insight into the discipline and its rules of engagement and success (Luckett 2012).
What is the relationship between external reality and the Self_?
The self is active, and external reality is passive in terms of epistemic requirements. The self is the subject, and the external reality is the object. The self acts on objects; i.e. the subject is related to its objects in the knowing relationship.
What is not provided by the knower?
What is not provided is the knowledge of the knower. Without the knowledge of the knower, when the knower is in ignorance about himself, the whole structure of knowledge is, as if, baseless. The foundation of knowledge is the consciousness of the knower—is the knower.
What is the foundation of knowledge?
The foundation of knowledge is the consciousness of the knower—is the knower. But if the knower is in dark—the knower doesn’t know himself—then it is very obvious that the whole structure of knowledge, the whole field of knowledge has no basis to it.
Is knowledge non-fulfilling?
But if the knower is in dark—the knower doesn’t know himself—then it is very obvious that the whole structure of knowledge, the whole field of knowledge has no basis to it. Such baseless knowledge can only be non-fulfilling. Knowledge provided by present education is non-fulfilling.
What does the stream of knowledge miss out on?
What it misses is the knowledge of the subject, the knowledge of the knower. The stream of knowledge has two banks: on one side the object, on one side the knower. With these two points of reference, the knower and the object, the first point of reference is the knower. Very important because we know knowledge is as the knower is.