The Core Theme - Knowledge and the Knower

This first part of the TOK course is built around a single question that turns out to be harder than it looks: how do we know what we know? Eight lessons pursue that question across four pairs, that broadly follow the IB TOK knowledge framework: Scope, Perspective, Methods and Tools and Ethics.
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• The first pair on Scope asks who the knower is and what knowledge actually is.

• The second pair on Perspective asks how your position in the world shapes what you are able to see.

• The third pair on Methods and Tools examines how knowledge is supposed to be made and justified.

• The fourth pair on Ethics asks what knowledge obliges us to do, and whether there is such a thing as moral knowledge at all.