GOVT 200 Test 1 questions well answered

GOVT 200 Test 1Be able to identify the correct definition/understanding of the term 'worldview'. - correct answer Lens through which you view the world. Be able to identify the five significant worldviews which have impacted the western tradition of intellectual thought. - correct answer a. Biblical Christian worldview b. Rationalism c. Romanticism d. process e. Post-modernism f. Transcendentalism (America) or post-process philosophy (Europe) What are the main components of a worldview as to the primary questions and the four philosophical dilemmas, as well as the basic definitions of each? - correct answer a. Cosmological Question: Universal question b. Anthropological Question: Human question Ontology (origins)- where did we come from? Epistemology (knowledge)- how do we know? Axiology (value)- what is most valuable Teleology (purpose and destiny)- where are we going? What is the relationship between the primary questions of a worldview, and the four philosophical dilemmas? - correct answer Four philosophical dilemmas answer the two primary questions. All four philosophical dilemmas address a particular area of life-concern in a final way- be able to identify each. For example, what is Ontology concerned with? a. Be prepared to read short quotes which require you to identify which component of a worldview is being addressed. - correct answer a. Cosmological Question: Universal question