Thrisha’s TOK Blog

What role does perspective play in our lives? Perspective is just one's way of regarding something, a point of view basically. Let me give you a situation to help you understand it better. For instance, you and your friend planned to get dinner together sometime during the weekend, but they couldn't make it and you get frustrated and sad because you can't meet them and that it's their fault for ditching you. This would be your perspective, you would think that your friend ditched you because they had better things to do than meet you. Right off the bat you wouldn't consider the situation they were in that caused them to cancel their plan with you. And their perspective could be that they had to work, or they had an emergency that they had to go to. Just by looking at this situation, you can understand that perspective plays a major role in our daily life, in even the littlest things.  Perspective taking is the ability to understand how a situation appears to another...

To what extent can we differentiate between morally good and morally bad? Morally good, the broad sense of this term that embraces a variety of particular virtues such as courage, justice and so on of the same sort. Morally bad, an action may be considered to be wrong because: it is harmful, it is unjust and unfair. Morally good examples can be always telling the truth, not being judgmental, keeping promises, and so on. Morally bad examples are murder, theft, lying, etc. But these are all vague.  To define a fact as morally good or morally bad is challenging. There's still widespread disagreement on moral matters. How can we apprehend moral facts in this way?  For example, the statement "killing is wrong" is simple, and we can easily understand that killing is bad. But we can't say killing is completely wrong, killing a person for no reason can be defined as morally bad and wrong, but someone can kill a person to stop them from setting fire to a school full of innocen...