Focuses on the six dimensions of worldviews upon which the course is structured: experiential, mythical, ritual, doctrinal, ethical, and social.
Worldview is used very differently by linguists and sociologists. It is for this reason that James W. Underhill suggests five subcategories: world-perceiving, world-conceiving, cultural mindset, personal world, and perspective.
The four worldviews are: Theism, Naturalism, Pantheism, and Deism.
The test of reason answers if a worldview is reasonable and if it can be stated and defended. Test of the outer world, which asks if there is evidence to support an outer world. Test of the inner world, which asks if the "victories, disappointments, blessings, crises, and relationships of our everyday world."
These charts are structured around the seven key elements of a worldview:View of human nature.View of the good life.Equality with others.Responsibilities to others.Relationship between the individual and the state (government and society)Relationship of humans with nature.Sources of ethical wisdom.
In a similar way, every culture can be evaluated as a mix of Honor-Shame, Guilt-Innocence, and Power-Fear worldviews. The Three Colors of Worldview can be visualized as three colored lenses - formed of the basic beliefs and assumptions underlying behavior and culture.
(1985) stated that "a dominant worldview is the collection of values, beliefs, habits, and norms which forms the frame of reference for a collectivity of people, such as a nation."
A worldview is a collection of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which inform our every thought and action. Worldview is expressed in ethics, religion, philosophy, scientific beliefs and so on (Sire, 2004). A worldview is how a culture works out in individual practice.
Rather the most important issue in any person's life is that person's worldview because that person's worldview guides and directs everything else, including one's education, career, finances, family, and friendships.
What are the four worldview questions? Where did you come from? What happens when you die? What do you believe about right and wrong?