Global perception of society

Usage examples of worldview.

In volume 2, the more subtle aspects of historical materialism are examined and set in the context of evolving and developing worldviews.

Although this worldview is commonly presented as thoroughly scientific in nature, none of these assertions have been verified by empirical evidence.

I became so drawn to the integrated worldview, values, and way of life presented by the Tibetan scholars and contemplatives with whom I studied that for years I sought total immersion in this culture that was so far removed from my own.

Marxist and techno-economic factors in the generation of worldviews, and an introduction to currents in postmodern thought, as set in the context of the spectrum overview.

In chapter 1 we saw that, according to the holists themselves, we today suffer from a fractured worldview.

We are suggesting that, in addition to its own insuperable difficulties on both phenomenal and noumenal planes, this literal no-self doctrine is all too easily confused with a borderline worldview, and, indeed, this does especially appeal to individuals who are already having difficulties forming a cohesive self.

But the point, as Habermas demonstrates, is that the first tribal societies as a whole did not evidence formal operational cognition in any of their actual, social structures: not in legal codes, not in conflict resolution, not in arbitration, not in modes of group or collective identity, not in worldviews, and so on.

And just as special relativity and general relativity require dramatic changes in our worldview when things are moving very quickly or when they are very massive, quantum mechanics reveals that the universe has equally if not more startling properties when examined on atomic and subatomic distance scales.

As we shall see, understanding and accepting them requires that we subject our worldview to a thorough makeover.

Their technology, their culture, their worldview, all became static, if not stagnant, The Spacer ideal seemed to be a universe where nothing ever happened, where yesterday and tomorrow were like today, and the robots took care of all the unpleasant details.

This is one of the main topics of volume 2, and I mention it now as simply another instance of the tensions inherent between the various worldviews.

At the same time, mythological worldviews also took onin addition to their explanatory functionjustificatory functions.

Thus, I have found that when backed by political and military power without restraint by the ideals of democracy, the ideology of science can be just as intolerant and vicious in its suppression of competing worldviews as any traditional religion.

It tends to play into the borderline worldview, as I described above, and thus throws us into the retro-Romantic notion that at some point in development a horrible mistake occurred, and we have undo the mistake by digging backward, instead of evolving forward to higher integrations that overcome a partialness.

But with the rise of modern scienceassociated particularly with the names of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kelvin, Clausius this great unified and holistic worldview began to fall apart, and fall apart in ways, it is clear, that none of these pioneering scientists themselves either foresaw or intended.