RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture 7: November 16th

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2WW3
• Professor: Janet Ross

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All cultures have organizing metaphors which help us understand. A metaphor embodies what it means: surgery as a cure. Metaphors shape culture: our ideas, our language, our behaviour and responses/reactions to our experiences, shape how we find meaning and interpret our life. Knowledge vs. knowing (cid:523)final exam(cid:524) (cid:498))f you agree that illness is necessary for knowing(cid:499) Knowledge are facts that are obtained: data, information. Things we read about, things other people tell us about. Knowing has to do with how we can see and perceive and be open to our own experience and that around us. Timing, perception university degree for having an illness. Illness helps us learn many things in life and death and death equivalents: death equivalents: grief, pain, loss etc. Certain kinds of tests are attributed to knowledge or knowing: standardized exams test knowledge, tests that are more opinion based test knowing. )n north american culture we don"t associate knowing with having illness.