Philosophy Questions
Within EDU 402 my class brainstormed questions that relate to education and to the three categories of philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. Epistemology answers questions about how and what we know as truth. The questions that most stuck out to me from this section were; how do we decide truth and who decides truth? This question is increasingly prevalent in today’s society. There are issues with ‘fake news’ where people do not know what to believe because the sources of information that should be reliable are bending to the will of people with things to hide and things to gain from lying. Helping students discern between truth and lie is so important. It will help them to be more knowledgeable citizens and it will help students develop their own ideas outside of their parents’ ideals. Axiology looks at values and morals. One question that I really think I can apply to the classroom is, Where/how did morals come to be? This isn’t something that can be addre...