Mr. MacKnight's TOK Class

I’m gonna try and keep this as simple and straightforward as possible.

Our discussion involving Socrates (Mr. MacKnight) teaching the slave boy (Aaron) geometry ended. It then moved on to whether or not the slave boy already knew about geometry stored somewhere inside his psyche (soul/mind). The idea was that the knowledge, inside the [...]

Right now, the time is exactly 1:07 a.m. I am tired and extremely sleepy but here I am, pondering upon the ‘wonders’ of TOK. In class this week, we talked about a lot of stuff but the most memorable one was the one about subjective vs. objective. I don’t quite remember what it was [...]

On Monday, we discussed Socrates theory of how the mind works, that the soul just remembers things from the past, instead of learning. He demonstrates this by guiding the slave boy with questions, making him think deeper and find the answer on his own. Although some of us felt cheated, as we felt that [...]

In Thursdays class, we read on about Sophocles and Meno, and we eventually came upon the discussion if anyone actually desires evil. We had a discussion about this, and my personal opinion is that although there are people who do not desire to do good, their evil may seem justified in their head, or [...]

On Monday we read more about Meno and Socrates and they began discussing whether everyone desires good, even if some may think that an evil is good. This got us thinking as we tried to counter his argument. I believe that no one desires evil. Everyone desires good. Even if it may inflict [...]

Today’s  Tok class has been pretty boring… all we did was read about Socrates again… As usual he is indirect and confusing… which makes me want to hit him if i where in Greece at that time, no wonder he made so many enemies… I feel that TOK the subject itself is pretty fun. It might seem [...]

Today, we started the morning on the first day of the week again with TOK. Although slightly draining I did feel that I have learned quite a bit from today’s class. We continued reading Meno and got to about halfway in the story. Unfortunately, we still have not reached the part in which Socrates [...]

First week of TOK and we already dove into the world of philosophy with Meno and Socrates. My first impression of this conversation was one of confusion. The way Socrates kept on pulling Meno around in circles also made me confused. The old language and style they used to speak also didn’t help as [...]

In my efforts to catch up on whatever I missed last class, I was told to go on this blog and read my classmates’ reflections’ of the class, and read the first 8 pages of Meno. From doing the former I learnt that these journal posts should be (at least partially) personal responses to [...]