Personal Worldview Influences

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Personal Worldview Influences ETH/316 January 15, 2014 Personal Worldview Influences A person’s worldview can be molded and shaped over the course of a lifetime by a number of different influences. Social situations, work and the relationships we form, as well as family, friends, and those that mentor us all impact how we view society and the world around us. The four points of personal worldview that will be discussed are comprehensiveness, coherence, connection to a theory of good, and requirement of personal action, as well as forming a context normative and factual judgment and how we base our views on what is of value. Comprehensiveness Also known as completeness it is an important formal component. Boylan stated “the best way to ensure completeness in a personal worldview is by developing goodwill (Boylan, 2009)”. Using both a rational and emotional sense of goodwill are necessary in achieving completeness in a personal worldview. Rational requires reasoning skills, using deductive and inductive powers to make sense of situations. As humans, we are also emotionally based which overlaps with rationality. They work in tandem together and when we have love (philosophically speaking) for each other we will never be at a loss as what to do. A good example of this right now would be the ever popular Obamacare and how it is to help those with insurance coverage. As an employee that works with those that are attempting to get coverage and have applied and received coverage, I see many dissatisfied and upset people. I have sympathy for them and feel bad that they are in that particular predicament. I have to be rational and use my deductive and inductive reasoning to make sense of their issue to be able to get a resolution to their problem. Coherence Deductive and inductive coherence are two ways to understand coherence. Deductive looks at contradictions

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