Write an 800-1,000-word essay on your personal worldview. Briefly discuss the various
possible meanings of the term spiritualit and your understanding of the concepts of
pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism. Primarily, address the following seven basic
worldview questions:
1. What is prime reality?
2. What is the nature of the world around us?
3. What is a human being?
4. What happens to a person at death?
5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?
6. How do we know what is right or wrong?
7. What is the meaning of human history?
ANSWER:
Introduction
A “worldview” is a way of pondering over reality and truth. A world view is an
arrangement of presuppositions which we hold about the basic make-up of our world.
There is no single, endless supply of spirituality. Spirituality is a broad idea with space
for many viewpoints. In general, it incorporates a feeling of association with an option
that is greater than ourselves, and it typically includes a search for meaning in life. A
broad, inclusive definition is: spirituality offers meaning to somebody’s life and draws one
to transcend him. It is a broader idea than religion, although that is one outflow of
spirituality. Other expressions incorporate prayer, meditation, interactions with others or
nature, and relationship with God or a higher power.
Spirituality implies to an experience that is thought to carry the experience into contact
with the heavenly. Waaijman states that the traditional meaning of spirituality is different
and it is supposed to be a procedure of re-formation whose goal is to recoup the original
shape of man, the image of God. Pluralism is a situation in which people of various
social classes, religions, races are together in a general public yet keep on having their
distinctive hobbies and traditions. Scientism is confidence in the universal applicability of
the investigative approach and system, and the view that empirical science constitutes
the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the
exclusion of other viewpoints. Postmodernism was a development in architecture that
rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new. Postmodernism is a late 20th-
century development characterized by broad skepticism, relativism; a general suspicion
of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the part of philosophy in asserting and maintaining
political and financial power.
possible meanings of the term spiritualit and your understanding of the concepts of
pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism. Primarily, address the following seven basic
worldview questions:
1. What is prime reality?
2. What is the nature of the world around us?
3. What is a human being?
4. What happens to a person at death?
5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?
6. How do we know what is right or wrong?
7. What is the meaning of human history?
ANSWER:
Introduction
A “worldview” is a way of pondering over reality and truth. A world view is an
arrangement of presuppositions which we hold about the basic make-up of our world.
There is no single, endless supply of spirituality. Spirituality is a broad idea with space
for many viewpoints. In general, it incorporates a feeling of association with an option
that is greater than ourselves, and it typically includes a search for meaning in life. A
broad, inclusive definition is: spirituality offers meaning to somebody’s life and draws one
to transcend him. It is a broader idea than religion, although that is one outflow of
spirituality. Other expressions incorporate prayer, meditation, interactions with others or
nature, and relationship with God or a higher power.
Spirituality implies to an experience that is thought to carry the experience into contact
with the heavenly. Waaijman states that the traditional meaning of spirituality is different
and it is supposed to be a procedure of re-formation whose goal is to recoup the original
shape of man, the image of God. Pluralism is a situation in which people of various
social classes, religions, races are together in a general public yet keep on having their
distinctive hobbies and traditions. Scientism is confidence in the universal applicability of
the investigative approach and system, and the view that empirical science constitutes
the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the
exclusion of other viewpoints. Postmodernism was a development in architecture that
rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new. Postmodernism is a late 20th-
century development characterized by broad skepticism, relativism; a general suspicion
of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the part of philosophy in asserting and maintaining
political and financial power.
