1.1 What is true?

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1.1 What is true?

Religious studies

• Chapter 1: what is truth?

Gabriëlle Körner (KRN)

Who are you?

• Energizer
• Standing = yes
• Sitting = no

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

My lessons

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

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

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'

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

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

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