Knowledge And Knowledge: The Importance Of Knowledge

Everyone has his or her own knowledge and meet on a common ground that creating it is valuable, based on its difficulty or importance. If you know that the weather is going to be rainy tomorrow, you can modify your traveling plans accordingly to the knowledge you learned from meteorology. Knowledge is clearly valuable in the sense of acquiring success in practical life, or at least making success more likely. Even philosophers, who disagree about many other things, do not normally debate the proposition that knowledge is of great value in practical terms. Moreover, they normally do not dispute the claim that knowledge is, in some ways, more valuable than other, lesser things, such as mere true belief. But this is where agreement usually ends. Philosophers disagree widely over what it is that makes knowledge more valuable than mere true belief. *

As I firstly read this question my immediate reaction was of course we value the knowledge mostly if it is produced with difficulty. However, as I deeply analyzed the statement I realized that it has deeper meanings than I thought. In different areas and ways of knowing it has a different meaning. They define the ‘difficulty’ and ‘value’ of knowledge in dissimilar ways. To what extent knowledge

It is impossible make reasoning about existence of God because it only depends on faith. So this makes its value dependent to people’s own thought and it is difficult to generalize. For some persons it is a case, which is produced by some societies and has no difficulty to value. However for others, in past there were revelations, prophets who were making these revelations a holy book and then spread this belief to humankind all over the world. Many wars occurred for religion, these are evidences for them to think it is a knowledge, which is created with difficulty so the value to give it, must be high