Q 3: Evaluate the role of the following branches of philosophy in the system of education:
- Epistemology
- Axiology
Course: Philosophy of Education
Course Code 8609
Topics
- Epistemology and Axiology
- Nature of value, Criteria of value, Status of value
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Answer:
i) Epistemology:
The study of the knowledge. In particular, epistemology is the study of the nature, scope, and limits of human knowledge.
- Epistemology investigates the origin, structure, methods, and integrity of knowledge.
- Consider the degree of truth of the statement, "The earth is round." Does its truth depend upon the context in which the statement is uttered? For example, this statement can be successively more accurately translated as
· The earth is spherical"
· The earth is an oblate spheroid" (i.e., flattened at the poles).
But what about the Himalayas and the Marianas Trench? Even if we surveyed exactly the shape of the earth, our process of surveying would alter the surface by the footprints left and the impressions of the survey stakes and instruments. Hence, the exact shape of the earth cannot be known. Every rain shower changes the shape.
Furthermore, consider two well-known problems in epistemology:
a. Russell's Five-Minute-World Hypothesis:
There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago." For example, an omnipotent God could create the world with all the memories, historical records, and so forth five minutes ago. Any evidence to the contrary would be evidence created by God five minutes ago. (Q.v., the Omphalos hypothesis.)
b. Suppose everything in the universe (including all spatial relations) were to expand uniformly a thousand times larger.
c. Russell’s Five-Minute-World Hypothesis is a philosophical problem;
ii) Axiology:
The Main Branches of Philosophy are divided as to the nature of the questions asked in each area. The integrity of these divisions cannot be rigidly maintained, for one area overlaps into the others.
A. Axiology: the study of value; the investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. More often than not, the term "value theory" is used instead of "axiology" in contemporary discussions even though the term “theory of value” is used with respect to the value or price of goods and services in economics.
1. Some significant questions in axiology include the following:
a. Nature of value: is value a fulfillment of desire, a pleasure, a preference, a behavioral disposition, or simply a human interest of some kind?
b. Criteria of value: de gustibus non (est) disputandum(i.e., (“there's no accounting for tastes”) or do objective standards apply?
c. Status of value: how are values related to (scientific) facts? What ultimate worth, if any, do human values have?
2. Axiology is usually divided into two main parts.
. Ethics: the study of values in human behavior or the study of moral problems: e.g.,
- The rightness and wrongness of actions,
- The kinds of things that are good or desirable, and
- Whether actions are blameworthy or praiseworthy.
i. Consider this example analyzed by J. O. Urmson in his well-known essay, "Saints and Heroes.”
We may imagine a squad of soldiers to be practicing the throwing of live hand grenades; a grenade slips from the hand of one of them and rolls on the ground near the squad; one of them sacrifices his life by throwing himself on the grenade and protecting his comrades with his own body. It is quite unreasonable to suppose that such a man must be impelled by the sort of emotion that he might be impelled by if his best friend were in the squad."
ii. Did the soldier who threw himself on the grenade do the right thing?
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