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Major Worldview

1. A worldview is one's comprehensive framework of fundamental beliefs about reality, including beliefs about God, humanity, and the nature of knowledge. 2. The document outlines seven major worldviews: theism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, finite godism, and polytheism. 3. Theism, or belief in an infinite personal God, grounds ethics in absolute, divine truths. Atheism sees ethics as relative and grounded in humanity. Pantheism and panentheism also view ethics as relative.

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Major Worldview

1. A worldview is one's comprehensive framework of fundamental beliefs about reality, including beliefs about God, humanity, and the nature of knowledge. 2. The document outlines seven major worldviews: theism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, finite godism, and polytheism. 3. Theism, or belief in an infinite personal God, grounds ethics in absolute, divine truths. Atheism sees ethics as relative and grounded in humanity. Pantheism and panentheism also view ethics as relative.

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Lecture

Seven Major Worldviews:


Definition:

1.How we see the World.


2.The comprehensive framework of one’s
fundamental beliefs regarding the whole
of what is real.
Definition.
3.A set of presuppositions which we hold
consciously or unconsciously about the
make up of our World

4.The view of and the experiencing of the


totality of relationships between GOD,
Man and Nature.
Seven Major Worldviews:

A worldview is simply the total of our beliefs


about the world, the “big picture” that
directs our daily decisions and activities.
As far as Ethics are
concerned ,three Worldview
elements are vital.

 The view of God


 The view of Man
 The view of Knowledge.
Theism:

An infinite Personal God Exists Both


Beyond and in the Universe.
THEISM

 Christians, Jews, Moslems.


 A world in the hand of an
infinite God, who is the
creator.
 Infinite - Limitless,
unbounded, boundless,
unlimited, absolute, eternal.
 Basis of Ethics - Grounded
in God.
 Nature of Ethics - Absolute.
Atheism:

No God Exists Beyond or in the


Universe.
ATHEISM
ATHEISM
 A world without God.
 + Political thinking behind atheism
 Liberalism - Everyone is his own God.
 Democracy - The people are God.
 Socialism \ communism - The state is God.
 Nationalism - The nation is God.
 + Agnostic - without knowledge of God,lives
as though there is no God.
 Basic of Ethics - Grounded in Man.
 Nature of Ethics - Relative
PANTHEISM

God is the Universe (the All).


Ex. God is the fishbowl.
 The world is God,
Man is God,
Everything is God.
 View held by
Taoism, Hinduism.
 Basis of Ethics -
Relative
 Nature of Ethics -
Relative
 
PANENTHEISM

God is in the Universe


(e.g., as a mind is in a body or God is
in the fishbowl).
Panentheism
 The world is in God.
There is a God. He
has two parts, one
in the world and one
apart from the world.
 Basis of Ethics -
Relative
 Nature of Ethics -
Relative
DEISM

God is Beyond the Universe,


But Not in It.
DEISM
 A world on its own, originally made by God. God
is not involved in the world anymore. This view
was popular 100 - 200 years ago and commonly
held by people who believed in natural laws. (A
law of conduct or morality supposed to be
inherent in human nature and ascertainable by
reason, as distinguished from law based on
divine revelation or human legislation).
 Basis of Ethics - Grounded in Nature.
 Nature of Ethics - Absolute
 
FINITE GODISM

A Finite God Exists Beyond and in the


Universe.
 A world with a finite
(small) God, he cannot
rule the world well so he
needs our help.
 (finite - limited,
restricted, bounded).
 Basis of Ethics -
Grounded in God or
man.
 Nature of Ethics -
Relative.
POLYTHEISM

There are many gods beyond the World


and in It.
 A world with many
Gods, view held by
Hinduism, Animism,
Taoism,Mormonism.
 Basis of Ethics -
Relative - grounded
in gods.
 Nature of Ethics -
Relative.

 

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