What is right knowledge?

in my own point of view knowledge is the understanding of what is good or evil. right or wrong in the perception of good understanding of what has be done and doing to be right in the understanding of man

you want to make decisions based on facts, experience and knowledge of the subject in question; more over consideration for all factors involved and collateral.

Your parents teach you how to behave with other people and how to do the basic things in order to survive. Your school teach you to read, write, calculate, and some basic knowledge about the world. Armed with all that, you now study to learn a job of your choice. Then you go into the big world, and use everything you have learned so far to build a life on your own. But you never stop learning new things. You learn everyday until the day you die.

Interesting...never heard that expression before now. If I had one guess I'd say it's knowing the choice between right and wrong...but that's taking it in the literal term. Maybe it could be as simple as following your intuition.

If right knowledge means "what is right for me", then I guess you're right. But in this case, many people don't have right knowledge because many times they don't do what is right for them. I slightly disagree. Science is right knowledge, if right knowledge means "inference and words of the awakened ones." Science is from experience also, but more organized and generalized. From what you're saying, it appears like people who think that right knowledge is an individual thing. But that's what leads to fights and wars, no agreement. There has to be some ultimate knowledge such as 6 + 6 = 12 in the base ten system. Yet, 6 + 6 base 10 = 12 + 12 = 30 in the base 4 system. People can't use right knowledge and say that 6 + 6 base 12 = 18 or whatever they "think" is right. So to know if our decisions are right, we must have the knowledge and much of that is proven for the time being, by science.

being able to identify and differentiate what's right and what's wrong. being able to do things according to those judgements. and eventually to stand up to my conscience and say "i have done my best!" :)

right knowledge is the sure or solid knowledge that we have about certain things.....

Very good discussion. I think that Science is never ending becuase it is constantly learning about everything in our surroundings; however, right knowledge had to come from within ourselves. Right knowledge is a conscience. Regardless of religion, it is know the difference between right and wrong and we base out lives on that. How we act. How we treat others. Even how we preserve our great mother earth. It is an insight into ourselves on what we should be doing. I think our inner conscience guides us. We educate this conscience and enrich ourselves through religion, but knowing the difference through morality is what a person bases their lives on.

I think that right knowledge is being able to acknowledge the fact that we don't know. There are a lot of things that we as human beings don't know but there are a lot of situations where it is clear that they don't want to share the fact that they don't know. So, I can't honestly say what right knowledge is, I can only offer my hypothesis that it is knowing that we don't know everything and that we never will know everything.

This is a good question. How are we to know if the decision we mde is right? Honestlt, for me I would never be so sure if my decision is right until I get the end result of it. I believe that making a decision is a risk. Whenever we make decisions especially in a very complicated situation we will not be so sure if the decision we made would have the best result compared to the other option we had. However, we based our decisions on several factors. There are a lot of things that can affect our decisions and some of these are the ff: our own beliefs, values, goals in life, people around us, etc. Since we will never be 100% guaranteed that our decision is right or the best one though we decide based on what we think is right or best then we should always be prepared to be accountable for it. We have to be prepared in facing the consequences or result whether it's good or bad.

Do you mean earthly knowledge or Godly knowledge? There's a difference about those knowledges. You may not have all the earthly knowledge in this world but you could have Godly knowledge by listening to His words. He's there watching us and giving us guidance by words sent through his messengers.

Let me redefine the words in your questions, such as knowledge; experience; and science. Knowledge: It is the experience of others; not our own. Knowledge is never complete. To have some more knowledge we must know more about the experiences of others as well. The knowledge is so vast that still it would ever remain incomplete. As long as we do not have the complete knowledge, it would never be right. Even our own perception becomes our own knowledge but whatever we perceive too is an incomplete knowledge. Five blind men had perceived an Elephant. Each perceived it differently. One who perceived the legs thought it is a tree trunk; the one who had perceived the tail thought it is a rope. The one who held its trunk it thought it is a snake. The knowledge they had gained through perception was not right. Even after knowing the perception of others, they could have never formed the right mental image. Therefore, I say there is no such thing as a right knowledge. Experience: Once we apply, the knowledge we have gained it becomes our experience. In gaining experience, we directly observe it; and even participate in it. For example in the movie "Passions of Christ", Mel Gibson had depicted the painful experience of Christ during crucifixion. We had witnessed Jesus' pain, we saw blood oozing out from his wound, the whips drawing out the chunks of his flesh; and his face contorted in pain. However, did we experience it ourselves? No, despite such a vivid description, it remained Christ's experience and our knowledge. It would ever remain our knowledge. It would never become our experience. We might not; in our lifetime undergo this kind of pain. To me it is the right knowledge because I believe that Jesus underwent crucifixion. To a Muslim it would ever remain a false knowledge because he does not believe that they had crucified Jesus. I might think it is a right knowledge but Muslim does not think it to be so. Therefore, I reiterate there is no such thing as right knowledge. The knowledge would be right only if we experience it ourselves fully. Since we cannot experience a thing fully in one lifetime, it would ever remain a partial knowledge but never a right knowledge. Science: The word science is derived from Latin word scientia, meaning knowledge. It deals with the knowledge of only physical universe. Science is never complete unless its observation is backed up with experiments. Even the experiments establish its veracity and validity theoretically but not empirically. After analyzing the definition of Knowledge, experience and science let me address your question, " How can we know our decision is right". To know whether our decision is right we must see first if it is serving the purpose of universal good. It is not at variance with the law. Also, see whether it appeals to the common sense. If our decision is going to hurt even one person then our decision is definitely wrong.

From your experience and searching for news like seeing live T.V and reading your daily news paper can held you to a right knowledge.

Whether they were born into it, or worked for it-they all have the same knowingness-they can have it and more. This knowingness is why only five percent of the population controls 95% of the world's riches.Although the only difference in having and not having is within the knowledge you can have it-there are ten good reasons you will be able to come up with that will support your belief "you can not have it."

I would say that if we experience it directly, then we have "right knowledge", but if it is hearsay, we can only believe in the knowledge and belief is in the mind, not in the experience of living. _Derek

Right knowledge is about knowing all the right facts that we ought to know, regardless of we accept it or not.. ONce it's being proven, like jesus is once alive, and he does really exist, and yet the fact is being accept by a non-believer of the religion, and that's the right knowledge.. haha =D It takes a great man to be able to differentiate the rights and wrongs, but it takes an evne greater man, to accept all that's being proven regardless of whatever.. haha =D

hi vine what we experience we usually know is true if that means right knowledge.I sort of thought that science was one place where we found the truth but of course our knowledge is always growing, but not always changing I do not think, as some scientific facts are still facts now i am 83 that were facts when I was in my teens. I cannot give you a ready made answer as I can only just figure out from my own experiences.I think we can only know if our decisions are right by the outcome,is it what we wanted to happen or not? I often make a list of pros and cons first before making a decision so as I can see the advantages and disadvantages of what decision I might going to want to make. So my decision might hinge on how many pluses or minuses I have.Hope this makes some sort of sense.

Is being knowledgeable means being wise? Our knowledge is right when we use it to the right things and our decision is right when there is a right outcome. So right knowledge is the application of what we know with positive outcome. In decision making we must consider the effect of our decision so that there would be no regrets.

The definition of right knowledge depends on the culture and mainstream values of society, which means there's no "common" right knowledge which apply to everyone in the earth. Some knowledge which is regarded as right in the oriental countries many be regarded as wrong in the west countries. For instance, in some countries, a man could marry more than one wives, but such marriage is illegal in other countries.

Science does not claim to have any final answers. Religions do. The difference is, the assertions made by scientists can be tested, and if experiments do not bear them out, they are rejected and scientists look for another hypothesis. With religions, they assume they know all the answers and just ignore any evidence that would tend to contradict their assumptions. One method is eyes open; the other is blind.