1. What in the World is a Worldview?

2. Definition
The Germans coined the term using Weltanschauung (world outlook) in the 1930s
“A framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual interprets the world and interacts with it”

3. Components of a World View
Origins (Where did I come from?)
Ontology (Who am I?)
Purpose (Why am I here?)
Epistemology (How do I know?)
Morals and Ethics (What am I to do?)
Ethics: What I ought to do
Morals: What I actually do
Aesthetics (What is good or beautiful?)
Eschatology (Where am I going)

4. Getting a World View Education – Formal and informal Language
Family and Friends
Culture – Popular and High
Philosophy
Religion
Experience

5. RICHARD DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, SAM HARRIS
ATHEISM
Or: Eternal Matter
On: Collection of Matter
P: None
Ep: Experience
M/E: Make a life
A: Eye of the Beholder
Es: Death
RICHARD DAWKINS, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, SAM HARRIS

6. HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, NEW AGE, SPIRITISM, GNOSTICISM
Pantheism
Or: Eternal Spirit
On: Spirit and matter
P: Reintegration
Ep: Internal knowledge
M/E: Karma
A: Spiritual
Es: Reincarnation
HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, NEW AGE, SPIRITISM, GNOSTICISM

7. Classical Paganism, Wiccan, Jehovah's Witness, Mormonism
Polytheism
Or: gods created
On: matter and spirit
P: Placate the gods
Ep: Experience
M/E: Cultural Code
A: Nature/Images
Es: Hades, Valhalla
Classical Paganism, Wiccan, Jehovah's Witness, Mormonism

8. Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Monotheism
Or: Created
On: Personhood
P: Fellowship or Submission to God
Ep: Revelation
M/E: Revelation
A: Accords with Revelation
Es: Eternal Life
Judaism, Christianity, Islam