Are You Guided By Morals?

Plato was an advocate and a pioneer in the field of knowledge, truth and belief. The three pillar dimensional structure is associated with a close correlation. The tripartite theory, introduced by Plato himself can help us understand this three dimensional core. The theory explains the three precedent concepts. A person can not have knowledge in a sense where he knows something, if he initially doesn’t believe it to be true. If knowledge is false, if it is not true, it can not be processed under the form of knowledge. For you to know that something is true, you need to believe it to be true. False knowledge is empty knowledge. For knowledge to not be erroneous, it has to be associated with truth. If you know something, then by default, at least on an individual level, it should be true. However, there is one last factor involved in the equation. Justification is needed for knowledge to become true. Let’s take an example.

You are meeting a friend that you haven’t seen in a while. From a distance, you glimpse the back of a person who you believe is your friend. You run up to him, only to notice that you mistakenly perceived him as your friend when in reality it was a stranger. You knew something to be true at first, however, it was later on proved to wrong. This perceptual delinquency was not justified by truth, and therefore the knowledge itself was erroneous, and it can not be considered as…