Seven worldviews of our modern era

Magical Realist

Magical Realist

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This article summarizes the 7 basic worldviews that are predominant in our modern world. Realistically many of them overlap and branch off into hybrid offshoots. For instance I find I am a dualist (what I would specify as a "dialectical dualist".) But I am also sort of postmodernist in that I'm a bit skeptical of any absolute truths or explanatory metanarratives. I take a zen-like phenomenologist approach to life. There is thus a definite Taoist spirituality interwoven in all this..

So what worldview(s) lies behind all your basic assumptions? Is it self-evident to you or merely the most plausible scenario that fits your present lifestyle and experience?
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7 basic worldviews in one sentence each.

Materialism (or Atheistic Naturalism)
“The universe consists of matter only, and the only way to know it is through sensory empiricism and reason, or science.”

Pantheism
“The universe is one ultimate reality, and to realize this is to awaken to reality.”
(Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism)

Dualism
“Reality is divided into two aspects: matter and spirit, or the physical and the non-physical, or ‘nature’ and the ‘super-natural,’ and there isn’t really much overlap.”

Theism
“God is the infinite and absolute creator and ground of everything and everyone: the source and destination of all life, being, knowledge, and action.”
(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)

Existentialism
“Life doesn’t seem to be inherently coherent, meaningful, or particularly conducive to happiness, but we can work to create order, meaning, and happiness anyway.”

Postmodernism
“There are no grand metanarratives, only narratives; no facts, only interpretations; no independently existing reality, only perspectives we construct; no truth, only truths.”

Nihilism
“Nothing means anything, nobody knows anything, there is no Truth, and there is no answer to ‘why.’”

Agnosticism
“I don’t know.”

https://www.livereal.com/blog/worldview/
 
Materialism is indeed naturalistic, but the converse is not necessarily true. Strictly speaking, naturalism has no ontological preference; i.e., no bias toward any particular set of categories of reality: dualism and monism, atheism and theism, idealism and materialism are all per se compatible with it.
 
I think the article in the OP was done in the philosophical style of innumeracism. ;)
 
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Materialism is indeed naturalistic, but the converse is not necessarily true. Strictly speaking, naturalism has no ontological preference; i.e., no bias toward any particular set of categories of reality: dualism and monism, atheism and theism, idealism and materialism are all per se compatible with it.
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This is definitely the broader definition of naturalism. Generally the definition
is that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe. I think a lot of scientists go with what's called methodological naturalism - where naturalism is assumed in one's working methods and theories but no strong metaphysical claims are made. So, while you could say it doesn't rule out dualism, it does take it to be irrelevant to the scientific approach to reality.
 
That would seem to be axiomatic, but having spent 8 years at Purdue I can believe two scientists would fight to the death over a misplaced comma.
 
Space , Material and Life .
Understanding that Space can not ever not exist . Is for infinity .
That the periodic table . The material world is for infinity .

And life is for infinity . But forms of life can and do go extinct .
 
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