Activities
Knowledge and Politics
This site contains a selection of resources and lesson plans for an Optional Theme on Knowledge and Politics. This is an introductory lesson aiming to define politics and introduce basic concepts related...
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Before you start using the website, please familiarise yourself with the pages below. When you first start to study in the Diploma Programme, Theory of Knowledge might be a little mysterious to you....
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Knowledge and religion
Knowledge and religion: scope What sort of thing is religious knowledge? How does it differ from other kinds of knowledge? Does religious knowledge fit with any of our metaphors for knowledge? What is...
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Knowledge and politics
Knowledge and Politics: Scope How are politics and knowledge related? Knowledge is deeply political. If access to knowledge is a good thing - and most people agree that it is - then who should have this...
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Optional Themes
There are five optional themes, of which you can choose 2 to study in depth: Knowledge and languageThis theme reflects on the role of language in the production and acquisition of knowledge. Language...