TOK ESSAY: Discuss the importance of reason and emotion in distinguishing between belief and knowledge.

As a Hong Kong Student, who is holding a British national (overseas) passport, now living in China, and receiving an international education, I have been been absorbing different perspectives of belief and knowledge. As an example, I can see a "truth" here in China is different from the one which is stated by the Japanese. And due to the multi-culture environment and the various aspects gained by an IB student, I notice how emotions and …

…to know how to drive? Would you say it is false if I said 'I know how to drive"? This forms a problem of claiming knowledge. Due to the limitations of the TOK diagram and problems of claiming knowledge, emotion and reason are seen to be the only elements of building up knowledge. Since the different natures of the subjects in Areas of Knowledge, there are different requirements of the levels of emotions and reasons.