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Definition of Worldview

The document defines and describes the concept of a worldview. It states that a worldview is a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world from a specific standpoint, encompassing beliefs about life, the universe, and how one interprets reality. A worldview contains fundamental assumptions and perspectives that provide a framework for how an individual understands themselves and their place in the world. It comprises elements like one's view of ontology, epistemology, values, and methodology for living.

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Definition of Worldview

The document defines and describes the concept of a worldview. It states that a worldview is a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world from a specific standpoint, encompassing beliefs about life, the universe, and how one interprets reality. A worldview contains fundamental assumptions and perspectives that provide a framework for how an individual understands themselves and their place in the world. It comprises elements like one's view of ontology, epistemology, values, and methodology for living.

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Definition of Worldview

World + view
Etymologically:
from German word: welt·an·schau·ung, from Welt
world +Anschauung view or outlook, expressed in
English as: Worldview

Conceptually;
a. a comprehensive conception or apprehension of
the world especially from a specific standpoint.
b. The overall perspective from which one sees and
interprets the world.
c. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe
held by an individual or a group.
Cont….
• Fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or
society encompassing natural philosophy, fundamental
existential and normative postulates or themes, values,
emotions, and ethics.

• A worldview (or vision of life) is a framework or set of


fundamental beliefs through which we view the world
and our calling and future in it.

• It is the integrative and interpretive framework by


which order and disorder are judged; it is the standard
by which reality is managed and pursued; it is the set of
hinges on which all our everyday thinking and doing
turns.
Cont….
• A worldview is:
a. a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the
heart
b. that can be expressed as a story or in a set of
presuppositions (assumptions which may be true,
partially true or entirely false).
c. which we hold (consciously or subconsciously,
consistently or inconsistently).
d. about the basic constitution of reality
e. that provides the foundation on which we live and
move and have our being.
Cont….
• Another way of saying it is that: Worldview is what a
person thinks and feels “deep down” about life, how we got
here, God, and why we do what we do.
• It refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through
which an individual interprets the world and interacts with
it.
 These ideas and feelings have a tremendous influence on
what we do and how we live.

 It is a “conceptual scheme that contains our fundamental


beliefs;  It is also the means by which we interpret and
judge reality. A worldview contains a person’s answers to
the major questions of life.
What worldview is not…
• Belief
• Worldview is different from belief, because belief is
the psychological state in which an individual holds
a proposition or premise to be true.
• However, worldview is wider then belief, because it
includes a number of beliefs and ideas through
which the universe and life are understood and
interpreted.
What worldview is not…
• Perception
• Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based
chiefly on memory.
• The neurological processes by which such recognition and
interpretation are effected.
• Insight, intuition, or knowledge gained by perceiving.
• Worldview is more wider then perception, because
perception is based chiefly on memory, while worldview
is based both on memory and heart. Similarly, while
perception is
Contents of World + view
Contents of World + view
 Worldview is the world knowledge or knowledge of
the cosmology. It is the function of man’s
reflection and intellection.
 Man holds high position upon all creations, even
though many animals are more advanced than man
from the point of view of sensory perceptions, i.e.
feeling.
 Thus, there is a difference between feeling and
knowledge. For instance, some flying creatures have
a sort of radar, a sense of perception, which man
lacks. Good examples are the eagle’s eyesight, the
dog’s smell and the mouse’s hearing.
Cont…
• A worldview consists of basic assumptions
and images that provide more or less coherent
ideas, thoughts and understandings with logics,
argumentations, analysis and experiences.

• A worldview gives the meaning and


understanding to issues of man, animals,
plants and other creations. It answers to the
questions of how does life originated? How
does it developed?
Cont…
• A worldview is the very skeleton of concrete
cognitive assumptions on which flesh of
customary behavior is hung. An individual may
be express it more or less systematically in
cosmology, philosophy, ethics, religious rituals,
scientific, belief etc
Question Philosophical Discipline

What is? Ontology (model of reality as a whole)

Where does it all come from? Explanation (model of the past)

Where are we going? Futurology (model of the future)

What is good and what is evil? Axiology (theory of values)

How should we act? Praxeology (theory of actions)

What is true and what is false? Epistemology (theory of knowledge)

Validity of ideas and concepts? Etiology (construction of worldviews)

Summary of the worldview questions, with their corresponding traditional philosophical discipline.
Worldview comprises mainly seven elements
a. An ontology, a descriptive mental model of the world.
b. An explanation of the world, interpretative account of the
world.
c. A futurology, answering the question where are we
heading?
d. Values, answers to ethical questions: What should we do?
e. A praxeology, or methodology, or theory of action
philosophy: answering the question of how should we
attain our goals?
f. An epistemology, or theory of knowledge, answering the
question of: what is truth and false?
g. An etiology, where a constructed worldview should
contain an account of its own “building blocks”, its origins
and construction.
explanation

ontology futurology

Worldview

epistemology Values

epistemology praxeology

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