The Area of Knowledge (AOK) that I identify with the most is that of ethics. I feel as if this represents who I am because my main goal in life is to do the right thing. I analyze the conflicts between good and evil until I become blue in the face, and I constantly create scenarios in my mind in which my morality is tested. Part of my ethical traits come from my time as an IB student at SCPS. My main academic goal is to stay on the honor roll until I graduate college. However, there are many temptations that attempt to make me stray away from my goal. For example, I could give up my pursuit of academic accomplishments and spend my time playing video games. However, I know in my heart that this is not the right decision to make, and I know that in the long term, my perseverance will be rewarded. I don't think I've been a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) student that long to know how this fits into the cirriculum, but I am certain that we will delve into this subject eventually. I know that this is exploration of ethics is the one I most identify with.
The Way of Knowing (WOK) that I feel like I most identify with is reason. I feel as if there always need to be a reason for why something works the way it does. Whenever someone does something immoral, I can't understand why they have done the things that they have done without bieng able to see their point of view. As an IB and TOK student, I find it especially important to know the reason of things, for if we don't know the deeper meaning in our courses, we are missing a huge part of what we are learning. In TOK, I am taught why people think the way they do, and we are on a quest to discover why we know what we know. In my opinion, many of the ways that the world works can be very confusing until a reason rises from the the depths of bewilderment.
