Abraham Maslow

Essay Question

“When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails” (Abraham Maslow). How might this apply to ways of knowing, as tools, in the pursuit of knowledge?

Personal Understanding of the Question

 

If  a person has a certain ability, this person will try to use or apply it for every situation or solution because he doesn’t know any other ways and he doesn’t see any other ways.

 

Overall summary of answer

The humanity is developed enough for now to understand that we can’t adress to different situations in the same way, that’s why there are exist a huge diversity of science, art and humanitiy areas. Because in all these areas our brain has to fuction differently. But it’s broadly speaking. To narrow it down a bit I would like to discuss that treating situations in one way it’s not always a bad thing, yes unfortunatly we can’t apply it to everything that we are facing. At the moment both ways of accepting situations have their own pros and cons. We can apply to it to WOK and AOK, but  probably everywhere we will have different answers.

 

All people are tend to figure out others. They all use their own way to do it, by using what they’ve learnt through years.

 

Emotion

argument:

Emotions may mislead us from objective judgement.

 

Countretargument:

Through emotions we learn a lot, for example how to contact with people in different situations.

 

Reason

argument:

Reason is not really working out well by itself,  due to the process of reasoning starts with the observation of other ways of knowing.

 

Counterarguement:

Reason helps to find out the truth.

 

Language

arguement:

In non-native languages people can’t express everything what they want to say. All languages carry the culture and traditions of the country that makes it more difficult for some expressions to be interpritated in another language.

 

Counterarguement:

Language  is the most popular way of communication and by learning new languages we are developing like humans and mind becomes more open.

 

 

Perception

argument:

What we see, what we hear might be nit certain. At this point we can’t  rely on perceprion for 100%.

 

Counterarguement:

We learn a lot through perception. We learn the environment and world.

 

Conclusion

 

Why is it important that we know about this?
What are the implications of this finding?
What is a different view on the subject?

 

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