Every worldview explains
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This document discusses different worldviews and how they address questions about the origin, meaning and purpose of life, morality, and destiny. It contrasts a Judeo-Christian worldview with secularism. A Judeo-Christian worldview believes that God created the world and imparted meaning and morality, and destiny involves an afterlife and ultimate justice. In contrast, secularism sees no creator, believes each person determines their own meaning and that morality is relative, and sees no evidence for an afterlife. The document aims to provide frameworks for understanding different perspectives on these fundamental aspects of human existence.
Every worldview explains
- 1. Origin: Past Where did the natural world come from? Meaning What is the purpose of life? Morality: How is a person to behave? Destiny: Future Is there a future utopia or nihilism for a person or mankind to embrace or reject: WORLDVIEWS ADDRESS AHALLER
- 2. ORIGIN – THE PAST • Origin (Cosmology)- the beginning: What is the original cause? • Supernatural - a design and purpose – every religion has an answer OR • Natural - the mere collision of random atoms? The supernatural is presumed not to exist. Atheism asserts this while Agnosticism does not know • Post-modernism as non rational “what does it matter?” Reject reason.
- 3. MEANING – PURPOSE • Meaning – words what do they truly mean? • Epistemology – Define a word or meaning? • Epistemology provides justifications for broad categories to describe what kinds of things are known. • Post modernism – Deconstructs language – meaning is whatever you wish it to be • Purpose – Design (Ontology) the reason for which something is done or created. • Words such as: motive, cause, reason, basis, justification, resolve, dedication, intension, aim, or plan Post modern : Meaning is whatever you wish to have subjectively
- 4. MORALITY – THE PRESENT • Morality: beliefs about what is right and wrong behavior - the degree to which something is right and good : the moral goodness or badness of something • Ethical framework • How can one describe evil? If you can describe evil you must be able to describe good. If there is good there must be a moral law. If a moral law it points to a moral law giver. • Is the moral law giver the State, a Religion, a Philosophy, a Person?
- 5. DESTINY – THE FUTURE Utopia • An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. • Synonyms: paradise, heaven (on earth), Eden, Garden of Eden, Shangri-La, Elysium; idyll, nirvana, God's country Nihilism • The rejection of all religious and moral principles – often the belief that life is meaningless – skepticism, negativity, cynicism, pessimism • As a philosophy extreme skepticism that nothing in world has a real existence
- 6. DESTINY AND TIME Temporary with no afterlife Atheism Annihilation Naturalism Circular – Life Nonstop Circular Hinduism Buddhism Eternal with a resurrection Christianity Judaism Islam
- 7. COMPARISON • Judaea-Christian • Origin – world created by a Creator God • Meaning – every man has value imparted to him by his Creator or God • Morality – there exists a code of conduct expected by this God- Moral absolutes • Destiny – one day all the injustices will be settled by God. An Utopia will occur ruled and reigned by Him • Secularism • Origin – no Creator – time + chance = complexity and order • Meaning – every man determines purpose as he deems best • Morality – there does not exist a code of moral absolutes. All is relative. We all simply dance to the tune of our DNA • Destiny – there is no after life – it is only speculative – make the best of what you have