Topic: “Worldview”

🔎 Lexicon containing “Worldview”

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Worldview

An integrated framework of beliefs and assumptions through which one interprets reality.

Frame of Reference (Philosophy)

A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.

💬 Quote Library — containing “Worldview”

We Accept the Reality of the World with Which We’re Presented

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

from The Truman Show

The Limits of My Language Mean the Limits of My World

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

📖 Excerpts Library

The Greatest Change in the Mind of Man Since the Dawn of Creation

It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty

It Just Seemed So Utterly Obvious That the Sun Revolved Round a Static Earth

Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

Not upon Any Theory or Abstract Model of the Universe

It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon "the Alexandrine" cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to...

Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith

Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell

The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...

Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler

It’s as Simple as That

Mike Michaelson : Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now? Christof :We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented....

Source: The Truman Show

Four Great Problems

Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....