Knowledge Question

Knowledge question: To what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusions that we reach?

Concepts are knowledge that is accepted by majority of the individuals in the society. Shape is the positive or negative influence that an object affect individual’s ways of thinking upon an event. Additionally, conclusion is the final decision or the perspective that one establish from listening to various perspectives or personal experience. No matter what time period, individuals always have different opinions upon different events. Thus multiple ideas and concepts could influence another on how one make decision and draw conclusion. Therefore, I am curious to explore to what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusions that we

Instead, doctors should support the patient to continue their live. Hence euthanasia should still be considered illegal, and should not pass through the law reformation. Therefore, this real life situation links to area of knowledge of ethics and contributes to the knowledge question of how do concepts influence one to make ethical judgment? Linking to the ways of knowing in reason, “killing is wrong” is a shared knowledge or concept which is ethically intolerant. Therefore, the reason of making euthanasia legal is known as mercy killing. Acknowledging that concept in mercy killing is to relief the pain that patients suffer might make one to think euthanasia is acceptable. However, ethically thinking, killing has been admitted by majority of individuals that it is considered to be a crime. Additionally, when linking reason with the other ways of knowing like language, euphemism plays a major role in determining the conclusion drawn. As euphemism is a polite expression to refer to things that one might find upsetting or embarrassing, mercy killing in this case uses euphemism to veil the ethical concept

Even though the influence and prestige of the church was declining, the weak position of the church added momentum to the Renaissance. Given this assumption and linking to the area of knowledge in art, I wonder how does cultural force affect the way individual judge beauty? The representative paintings in Renaissance include “The Last Supper”, “The School of Athens”, and “The Last Judgement” which are mostly Christian culture based artwork. Historical paintings reveal the fact that religious beauty is recognized as shared knowledge within a society, which contributes to the ways of knowing in reason and visual sense perception as the society is a religion dominated society so the way the painter sees beauty is from the gothic style in churches like Reims Cathedral, Amines Cathedral, and Beauvais Cathedral. Majority of the artwork in the Renaissance period demonstrates the power of Christianity, thus demonstrates that people living in that time period values religion, which is the shared knowledge that influences their personal knowledge in believing what is beauty. Individuals living in the Renaissance were influenced from the style of architecture and other paintings in Renaissance period. Therefore, from the sight influences, the cultural impact directly influence the way one judge what is aesthetics, which is represented from the painting. Furthermore, from the