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Worldviews #1
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Review for Chapter 1: The Battle of Ideas.
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Human beings tend to be storied creatures and so we pass down philosophical and religious beliefs through stories.
True
False
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There is no way we can know the 'Truth'. There are only individual or community 'truths'.
Secularism
Marxism
Postmodernism
New Spirituality
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When I want to know if my worldview if coherent and doesn't contradict itself.
Test of Reason
Test of Outer-world
Test of Inner-world
Test of Real-world
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Everybody is conscious of their worldview.
False
True
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Which of the following is a religious worldview?
Both of them.
Marxism
Secularism
None of them.
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Everyone has a worldview.
False
True
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A selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and look for what confirms one's beliefs and to ignore what doesn't.
Experiential Accommodation
Pool of Live Options
Confirmation Bias
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A worldview is just an intellectual exercise that doesn't work with the existential condition of the whole person.
True
False
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The study of management of resources.
Law
Politics
Sociology
Economics
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A belief is true
if and only if
it coheres with other beliefs one holds.
Correspondence Theory
Pragmatist Theory
Coherence Theory
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A worldview is the conceptual lens through which we see, understand, and interpret the world and our place within it.
False
True
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A worldview is like a map that tells us how to navigate the world.
False
True
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We interpret the data in a worldview-affirming manner. We seek to accommodate new data within our existing worldview.
Confirmation Bias
Pool of Live Options
Experiential Accommodation
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"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet."
New Spirituality
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
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"...there is no God...belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking...we live on in our influence, and in our genes."
New Spirituality
Christianity
Secular Humanism
Marxism
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If the application of my worldview in my life, community, nation and world is positive or negative.
Test of the Outer-world
Test of the Inner-world
Test of Reason
Test of the Real-world
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The study of life and living organisms.
Law
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
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It limits the number of possible explanations for a given phenomenon.
Confirmation Bias
Pool of Live Options
Experiential Accommodation
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It's view of God can be best explained as Trinitarian Monotheism.
New Spirituality
Islam
Christianity
Marxism
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Truth, by definition, cannot be all relative.
False
True
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The study of moral conduct, values, and duties.
Ethics
Philosophy
Politics
Law
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The statement "ideas have consequences" mean that our worldview affects how we live.
False
True
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The study of God.
Ethics
Philosophy
Biology
Theology
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The workers (the 'have-nots'), have been oppressed by the owners (the 'haves').
Christianity
Postmodernism
Marxism
Secularism
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The study of the human mind (or soul).
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
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The study of community governance.
Ethics
Sociology
Law
Politics
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The study of past places, persons, and events.
History
Sociology
Philosophy
Theology
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The study of ordinances designed to help citizens coexist peacefully.
Law
Sociology
Ethics
Politics
29
This class is about...
Making sense of physics.
Making sense of philosophy.
Making sense of democracy.
Making sense of the world.
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The study of knowledge, truth, and the nature of ultimate reality.
Theology
Philosophy
Law
Ethics
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A mix between Eastern religions. We are part of a larger 'mind'.
New Spirituality
Postmodernism
Marxism
Christianity
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A worldview is...
A set of ideas, beliefs, convictions and habits about God and the World.
How I act in the world.
What I believe about how the world works.
Affirming a philosophy of life through rhetoric.
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Which of the following questions does a worldview answer?
Who is God?
What does it mean to be human?
What is the foundation of right and wrong?
What is our purpose?
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The study of human societies and institutions.
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
Law
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It holds that something is true
if and only if
it corresponds to the way things actually are in the real world.
Pragmatist Theory
Coherence Theory
Correspondence Theory
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A worldview is descriptive (it tells me how the World is) as well as prescriptive (it tells me how the World should be).
False
True
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When I want to verify if there is some external evidence that supports my worldview.
Test of Reason
Test of the Inner-world
Test of the Outer-world
Test of the Real-world
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A view that holds that what works, or what is fruitful, is true.
Pragmatist Theory
Correspondence Theory
Coherence Theory
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If my worldview adequately addresses my subjective experiences.
Test of the Outer-world
Test of the Real-world
Test of Reason
Test of the Inner-world
