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True or False: Sunshine demonstrates in his book that biblical ideas left their stamp on economics, politics, science, education, and, in fact, on the entire course of Western civilization for the past 1,700 years. He argues that all of the West's distinctive achievements come from Christian foundations.
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True, p.10
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What is a worldview? p.14
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A worldview is the framework you use to interpret the world and your place in it.
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Do only philosophers have worldviews? p.13
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No, everyone does.
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True or false: in order for for a society to function effectively or to have any semblance of stability, there must be disagreement about the core set of values drawn from a common conception of what it means to be human and how we are to relate to teach other, which in turn presupposes a set of beliefs about the world, truth, and morality.
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False. There must be a broad agreement, not disagreement.
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True or false: Only people have worldviews.
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False, cultures have worldviews as well.
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Is it possible for a society's worldview to change?
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Yes. This results in changes of culture.
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What you must understand in order to understand a culture or civilization?
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You must understand its worldview, since all of its successes and failures are largely the product of the basic ideas that shape the society.
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What is the purpose of Sunshine's book?
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To explain the development of Western civilization from the perspectives of the changes in worldview from the Roman Empire to the early years of the twenty-first century. HIs interest is in the fundamental ideas that shaped the culture and how those ideas were lived out in Western Society.
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T or F: A concern of Sunshine is with the impact Christianity had on worldviews and thus on culture.
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True.
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