Personal Worldview Analysis
Introduction
Life and its meanings is something society search for the answers to daily. This paper will closer examine the author’s personal beliefs of life, spirituality and the meaning of life based on seven questions. The questions include what is prime reality, the nature of the world and what being a human being is. Additionally, what happens to a person after death, how do people know what is right from wrong, what is the meaning of human history and how is it possible to know anything at all will be examined from the author’s point of view.
Personal Worldview
Spirituality can be defined as a search for the meaning in life and can include a sense of connection of something bigger than ourselves (What is Spirituality? n.d.). Everyone …show more content…
Religion and culture play an important role in coloring one’s thoughts of worldview. Fundamental practices, beliefs and relationships are part of a person’s worldview. Religion does not necessarily mean Christianity it can include atheism and agnosticism as worldviews as well (Grand Canyon University, 2017). The world today is diverse in culture, religion, and faith. With the recent terrorist attacks around the world it has brought the Muslim faith into question. However, this writer’s belief is that just as Christians can bomb an abortion clinic that I do not agree with, so can Muslims preform terrorist attacks that other Muslims do not condone or agree with. In health care, it is important to consider the patients worldview in relation to their treatment and …show more content…
“Scientism is a philosophical thesis that claims that science is the only methodology to gain knowledge; every other clam to knowledge is either a mere opinion or false” (Grand Canyon University, 2017, para. 6) Culture and society define what is acceptable and what is normal, an example of this may be that in Saudi Ariba women are not treated as equal as men, however; in the United States women are treated equal to men. Relativism views that truth and falseness, right and wrong, standards of reasoning (Baghramian & Carter, 2015). An example of relativism could be that 99% of Americans think murder is wrong. Society sets the norms of what does right and wrong thus different cultures have different expectations and definitions of what is right and what is wrong. For Christians, there is the Holy Bible and it includes the ten commandments of things that are wrong for a person to
Life and its meanings is something society search for the answers to daily. This paper will closer examine the author’s personal beliefs of life, spirituality and the meaning of life based on seven questions. The questions include what is prime reality, the nature of the world and what being a human being is. Additionally, what happens to a person after death, how do people know what is right from wrong, what is the meaning of human history and how is it possible to know anything at all will be examined from the author’s point of view.
Personal Worldview
Spirituality can be defined as a search for the meaning in life and can include a sense of connection of something bigger than ourselves (What is Spirituality? n.d.). Everyone …show more content…
Religion and culture play an important role in coloring one’s thoughts of worldview. Fundamental practices, beliefs and relationships are part of a person’s worldview. Religion does not necessarily mean Christianity it can include atheism and agnosticism as worldviews as well (Grand Canyon University, 2017). The world today is diverse in culture, religion, and faith. With the recent terrorist attacks around the world it has brought the Muslim faith into question. However, this writer’s belief is that just as Christians can bomb an abortion clinic that I do not agree with, so can Muslims preform terrorist attacks that other Muslims do not condone or agree with. In health care, it is important to consider the patients worldview in relation to their treatment and …show more content…
“Scientism is a philosophical thesis that claims that science is the only methodology to gain knowledge; every other clam to knowledge is either a mere opinion or false” (Grand Canyon University, 2017, para. 6) Culture and society define what is acceptable and what is normal, an example of this may be that in Saudi Ariba women are not treated as equal as men, however; in the United States women are treated equal to men. Relativism views that truth and falseness, right and wrong, standards of reasoning (Baghramian & Carter, 2015). An example of relativism could be that 99% of Americans think murder is wrong. Society sets the norms of what does right and wrong thus different cultures have different expectations and definitions of what is right and what is wrong. For Christians, there is the Holy Bible and it includes the ten commandments of things that are wrong for a person to