1.1 What is true?

1.1 What is true?
Religious studies
  • Chapter 1: what is truth?
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1.1 What is true?
Religious studies
  • Chapter 1: what is truth?

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Gabriëlle Körner (KRN)

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Who are you?
  • Energizer
  • Standing = yes
  • Sitting = no

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Who are you?
  1. Stand up if you had a nice holiday
  2. Stand up if you have an interessting hobby
  3. Stand up if Religious Studies is your favorite subject
  4. Stand up if you have a religious background

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My lessons
  • School rules and expectations
  • Active work attitude during the lesson
  • Hard working = (alsmost) no homework
  • 1 person talks (=the rest listens)

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Religious Studies
  • Learning about Religion and important things in life
  • Looking at current themes in the world from a religious point of view
This year
  • First semester (half a year)
  • 2 chapters: 1, truth and 2, science
  • Study guide in Magister (ELO: studiewijzer)
  • Test is a practical assignement 
This period
  • Chapter 1: What is truth
  • Purpose? 
  • Test: script (task1 from the book) and custom poster assessment

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What is truth?
  • Oxford dictionary: 'The quality or state of being truthful' 
  • How do we know when something is true or untrue?
Is truth simple or complicated?
  • Reductionism: to reach the truth, you need to get the simplest possible explanation. 
  • Descartes: 'i think, therefore i am'

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Your own truth
  • Influenced by everything around you
  • Examples: your friends/family, education, country, media etc.
6 ways of finding truth
  • Consience
  • Reason
  • Authority
  • Feelings
  • Peer group
  • Culture

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Conspiracy theories
  • Oxford dictionary: 'the belief that a secret but powerful organization is responsible for an event'
Pizzagate
  • ''paedophilia ring involving people at the highest levels of the Democratic Party is operating out of a Washington pizza restaurant''
  • December 2016

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Exercise
  1. Which of the six ways of finding truth do you trust the most? Why? Give 2 reasons for your answers
  2. Which of the six ways of finding truth do you trust the least? Give 2 reasons for your answers
  3. Search a conspiracy theory. Explain what it's about and why people believe in that theory. Give youre opinion on what you think is the truth in this situation

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