#3 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 [...]

TOK Journal Tres

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 [...]

TOK Journal #3

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 [...]

Jeffery Liu TOK Entry #3

I found today’s class quite a bit more interesting, even thought we still read about Socrates, we did discuss quite interesting things. We talked about the human mind, how it works, why can a new born baby have the potential to learn any language? Scientist explains this by saying that the human brain is [...]

tik TOK, number two

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 [...]

TOK Journal Entry #2

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 [...]

Jeffery X Liu TOK Jounral Entry #2

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 [...]

TOK journal entry 2

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 [...]

TOK Journal Uno

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 [...]

Theory of Knowledge Journal 1:

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 [...]

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