RELS 2610 Lecture 4: Unit 6: Beliefs, Evaluation and The Comparison of Values

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 2610
• Professor: michael Shute

Document Summary

Beliefs & evaluation coming to judgements of value. Most of what e know we learned from our parents, teachers, friends, or media. Appropriation of our social, cultural, & religious traditions is largely a matter of belief: belief is imp for living. Believing is essential if we are to live as a community. Common beliefs constitute the store of knowledge passed down from generation generation: each new generation adds contribution. We depend on the discoveries of others & contribute our own efforts to the common store. Education is imp in the passing on of skills, knowledge & values & it would be imp w/o belief. Every society has beliefs: common understandings, judgements, values community develops its identity & progresses. The values we take as our own are taught to us. We share values of the cultural & religious heritage with which we identify: our values are often the same as those around us.