GGR107H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Nature, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, Hidden Curriculum
11 May 2018
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Professor Sarah Wakefield Sept. 23, 2016
GGR107 LECTURE 2
CRITICAL THINKING & WORLDVIEWS
WORLDVIEW
• Worldviews are situated in different contexts
• A set of concepts that relate individuals within any culture to the natural universe and to
other humans who comprise their social reality
• Worldviews can sometimes conflict and change through EXPERIENCE and CRITICAL
REFLECTION
“…the basic way of interpreting things and events that pervades a culture so thoroughly
that it becomes a culture's concept of reality — what is good, what is important, what is
sacred, what is real. Worldview is more than culture, even though the distinction between
the two can sometimes be subtle. It extends to perceptions of time and space, of
happiness and well-being. The beliefs, values, and behaviors of a culture stem directly
from its worldview."
• WORLDVIEW BELIEFS (trust, faith, or confidence that something is true or real)
VALUES (principles or standards of behaviour; one’s judgement of what is important in
life) BEHAVIOUR (the way in which one acts or conducts oneself)
PERCEPTIONS (being aware of the senses of the mind) WORLDVIEW
• Worldview is affected by, and affects:
- Nature/relation to nature
- Religion and spirituality
- Time orientation
- Human “nature”
- Politics and economics
- Individuals and collective
- Doing/being
• Worldview of TIME can be CYCLICAL or LINEAR
- “time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we
think” (Einstein)
• Worldview of NATURE can be as DOMINANT or a PART OF it
• Worldviews of HUMAN NATURE, RELIGION, MODESTY (of body and mind),
EDUCATION, POLITICS, etc. vary from place to place
POLITICAL COMPASS
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Document Summary
The basic way of interpreting things and events that pervades a culture so thoroughly that it becomes a culture"s concept of reality what is good, what is important, what is sacred, what is real. Worldview is more than culture, even though the distinction between the two can sometimes be subtle. It extends to perceptions of time and space, of happiness and well-being. The beliefs, values, and behaviors of a culture stem directly from its worldview. : worldview beliefs (trust, faith, or confidence that something is true or real) . Values (principles or standards of behaviour; one"s judgement of what is important in life) behaviour (the way in which one acts or conducts oneself) . Perceptions (being aware of the senses of the mind) worldview: worldview is affected by, and affects: Doing/being: worldview of time can be cyclical or linear. Education, politics, etc. vary from place to place. Professor sarah wakefield: dr. wakefield is left-libertarian.
