Please provide a paragraph-length response to the following discussion questions.
1. Consider the following: What is knowledge? What are its so sources?
2. Should any kind of knowledge be forbidden? Explain
3. Brainstorm the uses of knowledge.
4. Do humans create knowledge? What drives us to do research?
5. Discuss Faustus’ speech in Scene 13, lines 15-25. What does he mean? Who/what is to blame? What does it mean to be a “student”?
FAUSTUS.
But Faustus’ offences can never be pardoned: the(15)
serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus.
Ah, gentlemen, hear me with patience, and tremble not
at my speeches! Though my heart pants and quivers to
remember that I have been a student here these thirty
years, Oh, would I had never seen Wertenberg, never(20)
read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany
can witness, yea, all the world: for which Faustus hath
lost both Germany and the world, yea, Heaven itself,
Heaven, the seat of God, the throne of the blessed, the
kingdom of joy; and must remain in hell for ever, hell,(25)
ah, hell, for ever! Sweet friends! what shall become of
Faustus, being in hell for ever?
6. Are there any ethical issues related to the quest for knowledge? If so, discuss these issues in the context of the modern world.
