(January 3, 2016 at 7:52 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 3, 2016 at 12:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: A child perhaps hasn't proven to itself rationally that it has value, perpetual identity, worth, praise, etc, but it can believe in these things and be justified in doing so.
A child can be justified in believing in these things without it rising to the level of knowledge, nor with it being true. I find it odd that you use the example of a child, as children are particularly susceptible to mistaking insufficient justification for belief with knowledge.
As we grow older, we ought to try justify why we believe in these things. We ought to seek deeper explanations of how we know these things to be true. I am simply don't believe we ought to teach children they have no way of knowing they have value or worth for example. Or that they have no way of knowing whether or not nothing they do is to praiseworthy.
That said, majority of humans probably through out time never really thought deeply about these issues. I don't believe that they didn't necessarily have knowledge of it.
Nor do I believe you can only be justified in belief in the nature of these things through robustly investigating all explanations about them in the world.
