Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

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Desire to know
Alexander
by Krista Tippett on the Becoming
Interviewed
podcast, Elizabeth Alexander explores the
Wise
between truth, power, language and
relationship
in poetry.
knowledge
crave truth tellers. We crave real truth … People
We
ask me when they read poems that have
sometimes
‘I’ in them that seems to be autobiographical
an
Oh, did that really happen to you? Is that from
…
What I try to explain is, even if I am drawing on
you?
experience, the truth of a poem is actually
personal
deeper than whether or not something really
much
What matters is an undergirding truth that
happened.
think that the truth of that poem is not about true
I
or things that happened, but rather in the
things
are we not of interest to each other? … Are
question,
human beings who are in community, do we call
we
each other? Do we heed each other? Do we want to
to
each other? To reach across what can be a huge
know
between human beings. I look at my children
void
I think, as deeply as I know you I do not know
and
inside your heads. But I crave knowing them
what’s
deeply … And if we don’t do that with language
that
very, very, very precise—not prissy, but
that’s
are we knowing each other truly?
precise—then
does Alexander’s poetry and reflection
What
us about how art enlarges what is possible
tell
think and know? This section opened with art
to
speaks to the question “what is art?” From
that
we have a poem about poetry. To
Alexander,
extent do we learn about art from art? In
what
ways is this self-referential knowledge—
what
art, about art—different from art that
from
these words by Ursula Le Guin
Consider
the power of poetry and science to
about
is the human language that can
“Poetry
to say what a tree or a rock or a river
try
that is, to speak humanly for it … . A
is,
can do so by relating the quality
poem
an individual human relationship to
of
thing, a rock or river or tree, or simply
a
describing the thing as truthfully as
by
possible.
describes accurately from
Science
poetry describes accurately from
outside,
… . We need the languages of
inside
science and poetry to save us from
both
stockpiling endless ‘information’
merely
fails to inform our ignorance or our
that
the meanings of accuracy and truth
Consider
the arts. in
What would you say is the relationship
1.
accuracy and truth in
between
How does this differ from the relationship
2.
accuracy and truth in science?
between
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For reflection
Description in poetry and science
eachother
speak truths in different languages.
I think is the power of poetry. …
(Alexander quoted in Tippett 2016)
responsibility.” (Le Guin 2016)
descriptions coming from art?
focuses on phenomena in the world?
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