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Worldview
- Thread starter Kfox
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To me it is a thing consisting of any philosophy we hold and where applicable stories we tell ourselves which help us or hinder us as we navigate life.
I dont believe it only applies to what we would traditionally call "religious" people if by that you mean theists or especially if you mean Abrahamic monotheists.
Can you give an example of a worldview that does not include religion?
What is a worldview?
Stories.
Put another way, a "worldview" is the lens through which an individual agent understands reality. A painting of the landscape. A map of the territory. A story recounting or explaining the event.
See also - Worldview - Wikipedia
And is this something that only applies to religious people?
In the sense that all human persons are religious, sure.
Stories.
Put another way, a "worldview" is the lens through which an individual agent understands reality. A painting of the landscape. A map of the territory. A story recounting or explaining the event.
See also - Worldview - Wikipedia
And is this something that only applies to religious people?
In the sense that all human persons are religious, sure.
But not all human persons are religious. So is it fair to say those who are atheist or agnostic likely will not have a worldview?
Setting aside the cognitively impaired, I'm not aware of any human person who doesn't ask fundamental existential questions of life and meaning (aka, is religious). Note that being religious is not the same as having a religion, much less a specific religion.
How are you defining "religious"? And how is being religious outside of theism associated with having a worldview?
There are many different ways to understand it.
At its core, though, religion - and being religious - centers around lived experience and the challenges or questions that arise from it. As I already said, it is about fundamental questions of life and living - existential questions - and the answers we come up with to these questions that ground our lives in rich relationships, meaning, and purpose. In simplistic terms, it's storytelling. A lifeway. A philosophy. A worldview. An orientation. Whatever. The word doesn't really matter, honestly. Like all words, the word is just a placeholder or an appellation.
As mentioned, I don't know of any human (the cognitively deficient again notwithstanding) who doesn't ask and resolve existential questions of life and living, of relationships and meaningfulness. It's sort of inherent to being humans - humans are the storytelling animal. As far as we know, other species don't waste their time with existential questioning and simply accept who and what they are.
It's how one conceptualizes the world in which the live. And it's not exclusive to religious people. Atheists, as well as theists have a worldview.
Okay; for me for example, that would be my relationship and dealings with my family. I don’t see my family as my religion.
Again; with the exception of “existence” what you’re describing sounds like my relationship with my friends, family, and those I associate with on a regular basis. As far as existence, 99% of the people I run into we do not talk about existence, those conversations are only had with people I am close to. But again; is a world view about discussions of that which you find important? Isn’t a worldview more of a view rather than a discussion?
What does that mean?
Can you give an example of a worldview an atheist might have?
An atheist worldview might be their morals and values. Whether or not they see the world as a friendly place, or life in general as positive or negative. Their thoughts on politics, or how things 'should' be.
Everyone has views.
Everyone has views.
Yes an atheist will have a million different views concerning a million different things. But a world view sounds like a single view. Am I missing something here?
I'm not sure where you get that impression.
If I knew what part of the definition you're not understanding, I could help you better to understand it. What part of it are you hung up on?
No. A worldview is a culmination of individual views of an individual.
Nope. The culmination of the million different views is a worldview.
Perhaps because there's only one world(or, at least one that we inhabit).
nPeace
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A worldview or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics.
One can think of a worldview as comprising a number of basic beliefs which are philosophically equivalent to the axioms of the worldview considered as a logical or consistent theory. These basic beliefs cannot, by definition, be proven (in the logical sense) within the worldview – precisely because they are axioms, and are typically argued from rather than argued for. However their coherence can be explored philosophically and logically.
There are religious, scientific, and philosophical worldviews.
So is it fair to say everybody's worldview is in a constant state of change? That as long as you are capable of learning, your world view cannot remain the same?