Faneallrich Yao H4C ! ! !

Absolutism? Not an Option

! ! Upon discussing the philosophies of knowledge and integrating them to the areas of knowledge, I came upon to realize my ideal philosophy of knowledge applied to the subject areas of life. Evaluatism is my main philosophy of knowledge in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Ethics, and Religion. While, the Arts have my philosophy of knowledge of relativism. ! For the Natural Sciences, the use of evaluatism enables me to judge based on the articles and facts that I read in my everyday life. Such as the use of experiments, testimonies and Scientic discoveries one can not easily say that these are absolutely true as the need for concrete evidence and the weight containing each evidences may be used to determine what is more correct than the other. An example is the creation of the universe because there are many theories that state how the universe was created such as the contraction theory, the big bang theory and other more theories. The basis for judging is mostly reasoning due to the evidences and proofs supported by the people who raised these theories. ! ! For the use of Human Sciences the use of Evaluatism is used due to being able to judge which proof or historical claim is accurate from what is not through the use of reasoning and language, these may be able to assist the historians in judging which historical claim is true from not. As many people may know the concepts of the historical events. It is also shown that there are many historical claims for the said events. An example is from the Second World War, here are many historical claims from different perspectives about the reason of war and the events of war which made many historians analyze each perspective in order to see which one is the accurate and which one is the discrepancy. ! The area of Ethics and Religion also has the use of Evaluatism in terms of knowing what is the right thing to do. One can argue that there is no such thing as the right thing to do due to the fact that there are many perspectives for human morals. Also the use of Religion has need of Evaluatism due to discrepancies evident about religion that may misguide and mislead the common people about its purpose. An example for these two is the concept of stealing because stealing is not correct due to the religious perspective that it is wrong however, it is also morally wrong in the perspective of the people, but one must not say ethics and religion are ambiguous and that this act is seen as good in the other perspective as one needs to rely more on reasoning and logic, and the case of religion needs to have evidences and emotion to use as a basis for judgement. ! The area of Arts is ambiguous therefore relativism is my stand for this area. An example of the music of Metallica, one may say that the music is noisy and bad and evil, but others may say that the music is an art and very good. These are evidences of ambiguity in the arts because no one can be wrong about their interpretations.

! Overall, there is no absolutism involved in the areas of knowledge because there may be more answers than one. Evaluatism and Relativism are my stands for these Areas of knowledge