Why You Think The Way You Do by Glenn S. Sunshine describes worldviews beginning with Rome and ending with our worldview today. He goes through and talks about each worldview and what shaped it and also how it leads to the next worldview during European history. He talks about the major viewpoints during European history. He begins with the worldview of ancient Rome then to Christianity followed by Medieval, which years later led to the Enlightenment and Renaissance worldview and then eventually Modernity.
The first chapter is a basic introduction to what a worldview is. Sunshine talked about some of the six questions we learned in class. The six basic questions used to define and identify worldview are who is God, who are people, what is the …show more content…
Sunshine defined it by saying, “A worldview is the framework you use to interpret the world and your place in it” (Sunshine, 2009, p. 13). Worldview helps people understand what was going on during that time period. If historians don’t look at the era through the worldview they lived in then they won’t understand their success and failures. “What all this means is that to understand a culture or a civilization, you have to understand its worldview, since all of its successes and failures are largely the product of the basic ideas that shape the society” (Sunshine, 2009, p. 16).
Chapter two goes over how the “the Roman Empire is a paradox” (Sunshine, 19). The Roman Empire was the best of times and the worst of times. It was the best of times with trade and travel and all the new advances in society and social life like the
The first chapter is a basic introduction to what a worldview is. Sunshine talked about some of the six questions we learned in class. The six basic questions used to define and identify worldview are who is God, who are people, what is the …show more content…
Sunshine defined it by saying, “A worldview is the framework you use to interpret the world and your place in it” (Sunshine, 2009, p. 13). Worldview helps people understand what was going on during that time period. If historians don’t look at the era through the worldview they lived in then they won’t understand their success and failures. “What all this means is that to understand a culture or a civilization, you have to understand its worldview, since all of its successes and failures are largely the product of the basic ideas that shape the society” (Sunshine, 2009, p. 16).
Chapter two goes over how the “the Roman Empire is a paradox” (Sunshine, 19). The Roman Empire was the best of times and the worst of times. It was the best of times with trade and travel and all the new advances in society and social life like the