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Do questions like why should I be moral or why shouldn’t I be selfish have definite answers as do some questions in other areas of knowledge? Does having a definite answer make a question more or less important?
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Rahul Chatterjee TOK Essay Do questions like why should I be moral or why shouldn't I be selfish have definite answers as do some questions in other areas of knowledge? Does having a definite answer make a question more or less important? Soren Kierkegaard once said, " Without dilemma, there exists no man...". Little did he know how prophetic and profound his words were to be. Till this date in the oxford dictionary there is no definitive word that describes what human behaviour should be and how people should react to certain situations, as a norm. there has never been a stipulated value and there has never been a fixed belief for a situation that brings morals into the picture. The reason for this is that each situation has its own set of rules, its own human values to which we must adhere. For example, crossing the street when there...
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