World view intro_fall_2020_1a
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This document discusses worldviews and the importance of establishing a coherent worldview. It defines a worldview as the fundamental beliefs and attitudes that provide an orientation for how we understand reality. An effective worldview must logically answer questions about meaning, morality, human destiny, and origins. It also must be consistent with our experience and able to be lived out in practice. The document explores different types of worldviews like naturalism, pantheism, and theism, and examines how their underlying assumptions about areas like God, reality, knowledge, and humanity relate together in a coherent way. It emphasizes that a rational worldview must not contradict itself.
World view intro_fall_2020_1a
- 1. Holding a World View Establishing a strong Foundation
- 2. A search for meaning and truth The general beliefs and attitudes of an individual or group
- 3. A search for meaning and truth The general beliefs and attitudes of an individual or group
- 4. Holding a Worldview “A commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or a set of presuppositions.. That we hold… about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and have our being.” ~ Sire
- 5. Holding a Worldview Organizes or arranges idea’s and beliefs Acts as a map to decision making process Puts in order your values and priorities Functions like Eyeglasses Right prescription enables you to see reality clearly Wrong prescription puts everything out of focus
- 6. Holding a Worldview Must answer 4 questions: • Meaning – Is there an objective purpose and value to human existence? • Morality – What accounts for the human condition? • Destiny – Is there a better life or a salvation from our present state? • Origin – What explains existence? Is there a God? Reality – Material or Immaterial? Knowledge – What can we know? Absolutes, Ethics, Good & Evil
- 7. Holding a Worldview • Test of Reason – Logically consistent - Law of Non Contradiction Three tests of Worldview: • Test of Experience – consistent with what we know about life inside ourselves and outside ourselves • Test of Practice – What good is a worldview if you cannot live it?
- 8. Holding a Worldview Foundation and Building Blocks The Idea of God Reality Knowledge Morality Humanity Material/Immaterial Reason/Experience Absolutes Good/Evil Laws Determined Free Will Heaven/Hell
- 9. Holding a Worldview Foundation and Building Blocks The Idea of God Reality Knowledge Morality Humanity Material/Immaterial Reason/Experience Absolutes Good/Evil Laws Determined Free Will Heaven/Hell The Idea of Man
- 10. Holding a Worldview • Noetic Structure– the sum of what we know (noose) • Worldview beliefs are a subset of noetic structure • Presuppositions – what we know but do not or cannot prove. What we accept by faith • Non Theoretical Foundations of Theoretical Thought • Belief Forming Mechanisms Epistemology – How we know what we know
- 11. Holding a Worldview Law of Non-Contradiction Aristotle’s principle of non-contradiction occurs in Metaphysics IV (Gamma) 3–6 “It is impossible for the same thing to belong and not to belong at the same time to the same thing and in the same respect” • B cannot both be B and Non B at the same time, in the same place, and in the same essence. • For example, it is not possible for someone to be a pitcher and not a pitcher where “pitcher” in the first instance refers to a baseball player and in the second to a jug that can hold Water.
- 12. Holding a Worldview Law of Non-Contradiction
- 13. Holding a Worldview CreatorClass of Being and Existence Created
- 14. Holding a Worldview CreatorClass of Being and Existence There are seven major levels of classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. The two main kingdoms we think about are plants and animals. Scientists also list four other kingdoms including bacteria, archaebacteria, fungi, and protozoa. Created
- 15. Holding a Worldview CreatorClass of Being and Existence Living things can be classified into five major kingdoms: Kingdom Animalia. Kingdom Plantae. Kingdom Fungi. Kingdom Protista. Kingdom Monera (Bacteria) Created
- 16. Holding a Worldview CreatorClass of Being and Existence Classification for Humans Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Genus: Homo Species: Homo sapiens Created
- 17. Holding a Worldview • Naturalism (Atheism) 3 Main Worldviews: • Pantheism • Theism • I rule - Must be coherent in its answers; one cannot contradict another
- 18. Holding a Worldview Naturalism All that exists Is caused by something within the circle of life
- 19. Holding a Worldview Naturalism All that exists Is caused by something within the circle of life
- 20. Holding a Worldview Pantheism The view that the world is either identical to God, or an expression of God's nature. It comes from 'pan' meaning all, and 'theism,' which means belief in God. So according to pantheism, “God is everything and everything is God.”
- 21. Holding a Worldview Theism All that exists is created Is caused by something outside the circle of life Creator
- 22. Created All that exists is created by something greater than itself Is caused by something outside the circle of life CreatorRational Being Holding a Worldview And Designed A First Cause or Necessary Being
- 23. Created And Designed What would it take for you to believe a lie? Holding a Worldview