2/2/12

When talking about belief or knowledge, we tend to think of them hand in hand. But believe it or not there is a difference; knowledge is justified belief, meaning it has something to back it up. Belief is believing in something and having no proof to back it up. The reason people tend to correlate the two is because sometimes we fall victim to false beliefs, or believing what we want to believe. When this happens we fall victim to losing what is real and what is what we want to see. Plato believed that if you know the truth than you will always be good, and that is where the concept of believing whatever you want to believe is the truth and how that can lead you down the wrong path. With this idea that if we know the truth than we will do no wrong, can we condemn those who do bad things if all their lives they were taught what they were doing was the right thing and in that there was truth and understanding in their actions? I like to think that I know the truth with some things, but when hearing how we sometimes that your truth might not be the right truth, but than what again what is the right truth? Who makes that call?