A worldview is the set of beliefs about fundamental aspects of Reality that ground and influence all your perceiving, thinking, knowing, and doing. It is how you look at the world, how you think it operates, why things happen the way they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The elements of your worldview, the beliefs about certain aspects of Reality, are \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your worldview may not be explicit. In fact few people take the time to thoroughly think out, much less articulate, their worldview. Nevertheless your worldview can be at least partially inferred from your behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you deny that your worldview fundamentally affects what you think and do, then you must acknowledge that your behavior is impulsive, reflexive, or emotional at best -ignorant or irrational at worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you fail to be conscious of your worldview and fail to appeal to it as a basis for your thoughts and acts, you will be at the mercy of your emotions, your impulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will be inclined to “follow the crowd” and conform to social and cultural norms and patterns of thought and behavior regardless of their merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are unwilling to acknowledge and articulate your worldview, to make known your fundamental opinions, and to bring to the front of discourse your basic beliefs, you are being intellectually evasive at best or dishonest at worst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those around you will always be in the dark concerning your underlying beliefs and motives. They will be forced to guess (perhaps wrongly) the true meaning of what you say and the purpose of what you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you consider a worldview a private matter and take steps to prevent the open discussion of worldviews, you are still, in fact imposing your worldview on others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you use a position of power or authority to impose your worldview on others or somehow force or coerce others into adopting elements of your own worldview, you are denying them the opportunity to seek out their own answers to the important questions posed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By doing so you would deny individuals the opportunity to bring their own worldviews fully to bear on matters of common concern and the opportunity to examine their worldviews in the light of others. You would effectively restrict public discourse to trivialities and ungrounded assertions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may be personally responsible for condemning them to life with no opinion or discourse, you may be denying truth and goodness a chance to manifest themselves in those who you are manipulating\u2026 and anyway, in the end, if and when your power over them wanes, they may come to reject, even abhor, the beliefs you have imposed upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your worldview is too important to ignore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there is such a thing as obligation, you as a knowing, thinking being, have an obligation to examine, articulate, refine, communicate, and consciously and consistently apply your worldviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Socrates, during his trial for being impious to the Greek gods and corrupting the youth of Athens by his teachings, said “… the unexamined life is not worth living …” (Plato, Apology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is right, and without complaint he accepted the sentence of death to prove it. There can be no stronger testimony to the validity of these assertions than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember suffering arises from attempting to control what is beyond your control\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OR by failing to manage, or put into order that which is within your power to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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