What makes Dooyeweerd’s theory of Worldview additionally attractive is that it offers an explanation as to the Rationalism of Modernity. When the commitment is left unchecked, it threatens to become fanatical. And when it does it works to completely undermine and discount everything but what … Read More →
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Worldview: Acknowledging Faith’s Role in Knowledge
I have contrasted the Enlightenment and Postmodern Epistemologies, while at the same time developing the story of the concept of Worldview. I now want to advance a different conceptualization of Worldview, one that I think does a better job justly recognizing the contributions of Reason, … Read More →
Worldview: A Brief History
Weltanschuung The word Worldview is what is known as a loanword. It is an English version of a German word Weltanschuung. It literally means “World” and “Perception.” (Naugle, 64). In 1790 Immanuel Kant coined the word to describe our perception of the world that we … Read More →
The Modern Epistemic Debate
Philosophy seeks to grasp, to make sense of, the reality we all experience. We recognize that there is great unity in reality but that there is all great diversity. How is it that unity and diversity coexist? To try to answer these questions, Philosophers develop … Read More →
Worldview is back
A version of this paper was presented at the 2008 South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society Society conference on Oct 10, 2008. You may not have noticed, but Worldview is back. The concept, which is a little more that two hundred years old, was heavily … Read More →
Bauman on the Moral Encounter
Zygmunt Bauman’s collection of essays, Life in Fragments, is a description of the fragmentary nature of postmodern life. The fragmentation of the postmodern life manifests itself in two different ways of Being, each a encounter with the Other in which Ethics takes precedence over the … Read More →
Incorporating Worldview into Science Education: A Teachable Moment
Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Commentary argues for the incorporation of Worldview into Science Education: Considering science in light of alternative worldviews also often leads to a more thorough analysis of that science and those worldviews — and so, inevitably, people learn the science … Read More →
Eagleton on Rorty
In an interesting article on Commonweal, Terry Eagleton has a wonderful summation of Richard Rorty’s view of Western Civilization: Rorty’s kind of argument allows you to acknowledge that Western civilization is indeed a “culture” in the sense of being local and contingent-even as you claim … Read More →
Toward a Dissertation
I met with my advisor today, Dr. Leila Villaverde. I need to start forming a dissertation committee. In order to do that, I need to have a sense of what I’m going to study. I’m still interested in Reformational Philosophy, but am intimidated. Dooyeweerd feels … Read More →
The Postmodern Switch
The radical Reductionist attempts of the Enlightenment, however, did have a positive affect. It encouraged a larger cultural switch in allegiance. In light of the horrors of Modernity, we began to re-evaluate Knowledge. The Postmodern era may mark a change in Worldview. We are not … Read More →