Philosophical Foundations Of a Personal Worldview

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Matthew July 28, 2011 PHI-103 Philosophical Foundations of a Personal Worldview A person’s worldview is made up of many items. These items come from a person’s philosophical foundation in which is made up of five major areas. These areas are philosophical theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. In this essay I will talk about all five areas and how they help to determine a person’s worldview. Philosophical Theology is used in our worldview to help us to consider the philosophy of religion in which gives us a way to understand doctrines or theological concepts through the use of philosophy. Many people believe many things in this world and a Higher Power or Supreme Being is one of those beliefs. But what is that being? It can be many different things to many different people God, Buda, the Earth in all reality anything can be a Supreme Being it is just what we hold dear to us. We all need something to believe in no matter what it is to give us a core understanding of where we came from and that in return helps us to see our worldview. Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Knowledge is given to us throughout our whole lives from the people we are surrounded by. Mainly are parents are the one who gave us the knowledge we believe in our lives. But over time we change things to make them better then what they were before us and we do this because of our life experiences and all of the people we come across in life. Metaphysics is a branch explaining the fundamental nature of being and of the world. What is there? , What is it? , What is it like? Is there something beyond the world? Well if we believe in a higher power then I would say we would have to believe in something beyond the world. Ethics is a person’s moral and value system. We are taught this a t a very young age from our parents and we continue to change this
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